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  • A promotional image for the 1936 People's Olympiad includes an illustration of three people with different colour skin and clothes, holding a banner reading 'Olimpiad Popular'

    The Socialist Olympics of 1936

    Radical workers’ sporting organisations and the 1936 People’s Olympiad illustrate the role of sport in fighting oppression, writes Uma Arruga i López

  • A satellite image of the United Kingdom

    UK, hun?

    With fewer common experiences than ever before – from schools and policing to borders and governance – the UK is not materially a nation, argue Medb MacDaibheid and Brian Christopher

  • 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

  • A man at a pro-EU protest holding a European Union flag photographed against a blue sky, with Big Ben in the background

    The migration system isn’t ready for Brexit – and EU citizens will suffer

    The future is uncertain for the three million EU nationals living in the UK, writes Jack Gevertz

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