Review: Don’t Look Up
Don’t Look Up is a star-studded film in which PhD student Kate Dibiaski (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers a comet which is six months away from a collision with Earth. She and…
Sedition charges for Hong Kong editors
AS WE reported last week, the Chinese authorities have been clamping down on Hong Kong’s freedoms since the introduction of the national security law last year, and yesterday two former…
Russia Shuts Memorial International Human Rights Centre
A COURT in Russia has shut down Memorial International and the Memorial Human Rights Centre. Memorial International is one of the oldest human rights organisations in Russia. Dating back to…
Myanmar Military in Fresh Atrocity
Myanmar: The most recent atrocity on Christmas Eve is another example of the military waging war on the people of Myanmar
The man who fought apartheid – everywhere
THE news hit the world on Boxing Day of Desmond Tutu’s death, and, while the Nobel Peace Prizewinner was praised by leaders and media worldwide for his fight against apartheid…
The Briefing December 27
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Mel’s 12 songs for Christmas
Editor’s note: Mel submitted this list nice and early and a person who shall remain nameless (DM) missed it and failed to include it. So th “In Dulci Jublio” I…
Shame on Hong Kong
A STATUE commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre, which has stood in Hong Kong for two decades, was removed overnight on Wednesday in what can only be interpreted as China trying…
The Twelve Bands Of Christmas
Christmas is a time for lists and Critical Mass is publishing some lists from our regular contributors. So here is mine. To get on this list you have to have…
And So This is Christmas
Christmas is extraordinary. It is full of contradictions and confusions. There are some who claim it as the Festival of Yuletide, others the Birth of the Sun and, for Christians,…