From the Islamic Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, from the British Empire to the Berlin Wall, this video series looks at momentous events that shaped the world we know today
Dan Poulton
Dan is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His most recent documentary was The New Scramble For Africa and his documentaries have appeared regularly on the Islam Channel. He is an organiser for Counterfire and a regular contributor to Counterfire site.
Analysis
Rishi Sunak speaking in Poland, April 2024. Photo: Flickr/Simon Walker
29 Apr 2024
Our politicians fuel threat of wider war – weekly briefing
News
People in their tens of thousands rally in Melbourne in support of Palestine. Source:
Matt Hrkac - Flckr / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0
26 Apr 2024
At Warwick the Global Student Palestine Protest Movement arrives in style
Opinion
Clapham Junction - fan of tracks toward London 1979. Source: Whatlep - geograph.org.uk / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0
26 Apr 2024
Labour’s rail policy: well, OK, but it’s really not enough
Book review
Kohei Saito, Slow Down. How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth, trans. Brian Bergstrom, (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2024), xvi, 264pp.
26 Apr 2024
Slow Down. How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth – book review
Opinion
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mets with the Ukrainian servicemen who are defending the city of Bakhmut. Source: President Of Ukraine - Wikicommons / cropped from original / CC0 1.0
25 Apr 2024