Director Grant Heslov (2009)

Review by Jane Barnwell

What sounds like an obscure documentary about farming practices turns out to be an entertaining and thought provoking dig at the United States home and foreign policies.

by Laurie Penny

Today's monotheistic patriarchal desert religions were not designed with the Internet in mind. In the sandy days of yore when Isaac and Ishmael were going their separate ways across Canaan, a RAM was something you sacrificed and Google was the noise that your enemies made as you slit their throats for worshipping the local animal deities. It’s safe to say that the ancient prophets probably didn’t envision their followers, three millennia on, hacking out their politics in the comments threads of liberal websites.

How police surveillance of peaceful protestors in the UK puts our lives as well as freedoms in danger - a personal view from someone who watched them do it

By Alex Holland

With two ultra-right wing political parties in India and the UK making an electoral breakthrough, Priyal Sanghavi compares both cases to examine if fascism is making a comeback

Incarcerated for other people’s crimes, and locked up with the one person who often cares the least about them – their mother. Spriha Srivastava looks at the phenomenon of India’s child prisoners.

by Kat Lay



Human rights campaigners in London yesterday demanded action from their Members of Parliament on a rule which forces women to choose between staying with an abusive partner or homelessness and destitution.