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Alameda Park is Mexico City’s languid space for lovers and open-air ballroom dancers: the gents in two-tone shoes, the ladies in finery…
John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. Based mostly in the UK since 1962, John Pilger has been an internationally influential investigative reporter, a strong critic of Australian, British and American foreign policy since his early reporting days in Vietnam, and has also condemned official treatment of Indigenous Australians. Twice winner of Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, he has won many other awards for his documentaries on foreign affairs and culture. He was also a cherished ZFriend.
On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war…
The High Court in London will soon decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual…
Looking for a bookshop that was no longer there, I walked instead into a labyrinth designed as a trap. Leaving became an…
On 13 September, one of the world's biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On 8 September, the…
On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of…
On my first day in Cuba, in 1967, I waited in a bus queue that was really a conga line. Ahead of…
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets…
How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, 'Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia', was banned in the…
The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord…