BlogFlockThe United States of America looms large as one of the most powerful countries in the world – politically, culturally, and economically. It dominates headlines, shapes global debates, and through the story of its birth, often presents itself as the natural inheritor of liberty and democracy.
But like any origin…
Hertha Ayrton was an electrical engineer, mathematician, inventor, physicist and suffragette. Born Phoebe Marks in Portsmouth, she was the third child of a Polish-Jewish watchmaker from tsarist Poland and his wife. After passing the mathematical tripos at Cambridge University she went on to register 26 patents, and her…
From divorce settlements and cattle disputes to surprisingly modern ideas about gender and compensation, the laws of Hywel Dda shed unique light on how society functioned, in a turbulent age of rival princes and conquest.
Speaking to Elinor Evans, legal historian Sara Elin Roberts explains the laws often attributed to…
This past week marks the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote. A decade later, the United Kingdom continues to feel the impact of economic chaos, social division, and political weakness
Canada is entering what I fear is our Brexit summer, with the upcoming Alberta referendum. But officials seem determined to…
In the clearest proof that toilet humour has always been funny, the oldest-known documented joke in human history is flatulence-based. From 1900 BC, the Sumerians from what is now southern Iraq came up with this proverb: “Something which has never occurred…
During my political career, there was a running joke in my office about dealing with the Library of Parliament. After every election, someone from the library would call to update my official parliamentary biography and ask about my educational background.
Jan (yes, the same Jan who helps run The Resistance)…
The terms ‘gay’ and ‘queer,’ and the identity categories that have sprung up around them, are quite modern. But people who were what we would now call gay, queer, and gender non-conforming have existed forever – even in the Georgian period, more than 200 years before homosexual acts were decriminalised…
Nandini Das: We think we know about Tudor England. We’ve all heard about Henry VIII’s wives, Elizabeth I’s jewels and Shakespeare’s “sceptred isle”. Instead…
What the heck is NovaRed Mining up to?
This American company set up shop under a Vancouver address and brought US military experts onto its board.
Then they appointed Kristi Noem, who has a notorious reputation for her role in Alligator Alcatraz and her constant attacks on Canada. She was…
Brenda, a suburban housewife, returned home to Birmingham with her family in late August 1976 after a holiday in Devon. She now surveyed the fortnight’s worth of grubby clothes produced by herself, her husband, their daughter and three sons. How would she cope with this mountain of washing? The nation…
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Stories and strategies of resistance in this new dark age.