Lilit Martirosyan misses the chance to go and sit somewhere outside to drink coffee. She hasn’t been able to do that for the past seven weeks. It’s too dangerous for her to even look out her own window.
Ahmed Alaa describes hoisting a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo as the "best five minutes of his life." Now he faces years in prison and says his family and his life have been destroyed.
he British class system has always been one of our most enduring sources of comedy. Most notably, the depravity of the aristocracy, and the superficiality of the middle-classes. For hundreds of years we’ve poked fun at it.
“You’ll notice that I’m a transgender person. I’m the only transgender person who has ever been on Question Time, because the conversation about us is conducted over our heads, and doesn’t actually include the people who this conversation affects directly."