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  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is one of many high profile politicians who gained notoriety through comedy (Credit: Mykhaylo Markiv/The Presidential Administration of Ukraine)

    The rise of comedian politicians

    As more and more comedians find success in the political arena, Rhian Jones lists some of the most prominent examples of satirists turned statesmen

  • The halls of Trinity College Dublin (Photo: Ben Guerin)

    Gender, class and cliché in Normal People

    The BBC hit drama shows the complexities of class mobility, but can’t avoid class and gender stereotypes, says Frances Hatherley

  • A group of people stand holding rainbow flags in the sun at Newry Pride

    Pride in an Irish border town

    Irish LGBTQ campaigner Joseph Healy reflects on Newry Pride, how life on the border has changed, and the stakes of Brexit

  • Shoes on the Danube Promenade

    Hungary: Europe’s creeping fascism

    Luke Cooper reports on his recent visit to Hungary, an EU member state where democratic freedoms are no longer taken for granted

  • Croatia: against modern football?

    Andrew Hodges examines football fan activism and organising in Croatia – a powerful, politicised and unpredictable battle between the left and the far right

  • A figure in a brown hoodie walks through a green field holing a eco-anarchist green and black flag with a skull and cross bones on it

    The battle of Hambacher Forest

    Activists have occupied Hambacher Forest for six years to prevent environmental destruction through coal mining. Now, state, police and corporate forces are combining to oust them for good, writes Andrea Brock

  • An illustration showing a man in a suit running away from two different hats – one a top hat the other a Russian Communist Party hat – trying to trap him

    Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine

    While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun

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