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Is Barbie feminist? Not for all women

The film’s a marketing success, but its limited vision doesn’t apply to most women, for whom the world is grim not pink

Women stand in front of a promotional poster of film "Barbie" in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Titan and the trawler: Whose lives matter?

Ours is a world in which the lives of a few matter significantly more than the lives of the many.

A migrant who survived the capsized boat receives medical care June 15, 2023 in Kalamata, Greece. A fishing boat carrying hundreds of passengers attempting to reach Europe capsized and sank off Greece on June 14, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind in the past decade. Greece declared a three-day national mourning period for the victims of the shipwreck of its southern coast on June 14. (Photo by Byron Smith/Getty Images)

With Charles III coronation, colonialism is coming home to roost

From a plundered economy to a police force ready to crush protests, Britain today looks like its colonies once did.

FILE - Protestors wait for the arrival of King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort to visit Liverpool Central Library, and to officially mark the Library's twinning with Ukraine's first public Library, the Regional Scientific Library in Odesa, in Liverpool, England, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. There will be dissenters among the cheering crowds when King Charles III travels by gilded coach to his coronation. More than 1,500 protesters will be dressed in yellow for maximum visibility and they plan to gather beside it to chant “Not my king” as the royal procession goes by on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jon Super, Pool, File)

Forget Nazis, Britain’s cruel refugee plan mimics its own history

UK has historically been more a refugee-making country than a refugee-taking one. It refuses to confront that truth.

Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman

Rishi Sunak does represent a minority — his class of plutocrats

Britain’s new PM only offers diverse shades of exploitation and inequality, not shared wellbeing.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for the House of Commons for his first Prime Minister's Questions in London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Sunak was elected by the ruling Conservative party to replace Liz Truss who resigned. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Queen Elizabeth is not innocent of the Crown’s crimes

The late queen faithfully served the British imperial project.

A car carrying Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla drives past a poster of late Queen Elizabeth outside Aberdeen International Airport to fly to London, following the passing of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, in Aberdeen, Britain, September 9, 2022. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Behind the UK government’s false flag ‘free speech’ campaign

Government efforts to ‘defend’ free speech on campus are really not about censorship in UK universities.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has put forward a Higher Education Freedom of Speech Bill in Parliament [File: Adrian Dennis/Pool via Reuters]

India’s democracy may not have much time left

The attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University shows that the ideological civil war in India has taken a new violent turn.

Student protests

When do you become ‘British enough’?

Or what Shamima Begum’s case tells us about Britain’s identity crisis.

Shamima Begum

Regional actors should take a stand against Myanmar

India and other South Asian nations should be unambiguous in their condemnation of Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya.

A Rohingya refugee child reacts to the camera as lies on a cradle at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp