Day 1 Bleary-eyed and hungover from a wild night in Talinn, Estonia, the group of 30 Topdeckers roll into Saint Petersburg, straight to the front…
It’s a glorious spring day in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the bright restaurant is over half full. Yuri Milokovich pulls a chair out from an…
It’s my second day on the streets of Moscow and the dentist I think I’m booked in to see doesn’t exist. I walk with my…
Whilst on an exchange program in Europe, I was given the opportunity to go on a visa-free trip organised by the university to the Russian…
The smell of sausages and sweat permeates the air. Thousands of commuters push past me, an inconsequential outsider they have no problem squishing like a…
The US swoops in again to protect a country that didn’t ask for protection. Six years of innocents suffering and countless chemical attacks later, Trump…
When World War II finished in 1945, three major political changes took place. The old great powers (otherwise known as sovereign states that knew how…
Last weekend, those grand dames of nuanced political thought, Teen Vogue, published an article apropos of Donald Trump’s “gaslighting” of America. Within, author Lauren Duca…
Gareth was looking resplendent in a t-shirt emblazoned with the words “Freedom Fighters… Big Five”. It is the kind of shirt that could get you…
