As dividing walls again rise in Europe, the difficulty now is how to focus on and support Ukraine, be starkly against Russian use of force and war crimes, but also how to do so without othering and knotting the fabric of European societies for the future…
Read MoreOn May 5th 2022, Northern Ireland will have its first election since 2017. The past 5 years of party politics in Northern Ireland have been some of the most tumultuous since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998; characterised by division and scandal, as well as huge steps forward in progressive legislation, not to mention a global pandemic. So how will these elections turn out?
Read MoreThis podcast delves into the current trends in the world of online influencers in and around the War on Ukraine. Who is getting it right and who is categorically not. Do governments have the right or a duty to steer their content production given the huge columns of disinformation and propaganda being generated by Kremlin bot farms and content production apparatus. Take a listen now!
Read MoreWith the upcoming French presidential elections, we held a special episode of our Zooming in on Hate podcast. Dare to be Grey’s Hannah Richter and Textgain’s Lydia El-Khouri joined Xavier Brandao to find out more about the narratives surrounding the election, especially online.
Read More“At the police station, we were all questioned and photographed, and then sent upstairs to wait in a big pompous hall. There was already a group from another van, detained three hours before us in the same place, waiting to read and sign their individual reports. There was a loo, you could ask for a glass of water, but not for a phone call – so none of us could tell our relatives where we were or call a lawyer.” In this series, Vera provides a first-hand look into what happened in Russia the days following the invasion of Ukraine.
Read MoreUnderstand the framing of the war on Ukraine, and discover the do’s and don’ts when talking about it.
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