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Desperate: An image of a family home during the Irish famine from 1845 to 1850, in which more than a million people died. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
BRITISH EMPIRE

The British Empire’s impact on Ireland’s Great Hunger

Drew Forrest looks at the role of Victorian laissez-faire in the terrible Irish famine

  • Drew Forrest
8 min read
The Olympics are an international gathering – politics and protest can’t be divided from that
ACTIVIST ATHLETE

Banning protests at the Olympics ignores the games’ history

It is the year of the Tokyo Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee was quickly out of the blocks with new guidelines regarding athlete protests. The IOC is worried the…

  • David Rowe
5 min read