Category: Politics & Society

The police were the first Georgians I met. Arriving in the capital, Tbilisi, at ten to midnight there were police officers waiting on the tarmac. (more…)

Back in 2015 Amazon unveiled a promotional campaign for their TV adaptation of Philip K. Dick's famous novel The Man in the High Castle. (more…)

I knew it was going to be bad. I'd read all the one and two star reviews and looked at the pictures of weird murals and overgrown gardens but I kept circling back to the…

I knew that Hawaii was part of America but I still didn't expect it to be so American. (more…)

Studying Australian history often feels more like uncovering some sprawling conspiracy. Buried underneath all the accounts of white explorers, convicts, bushrangers, miners and diggers is a vast bedrock of black history. The more you dig the more connections you find but the…

As a nation with a large reserve of uranium but no nuclear energy industry Australia is periodically subject to op-ed pieces designed to drum up support for a domestic nuclear power industry. (more…)

Photos by Asmaa Waguih and Joey Lawrence of Kurdish fighters provide a face for a revolution that is quietly taking place behind the front lines of the war with ISIS. (more…)

Our first day on the bikes took us up the west coast from Negombo to Puttallam. It was a busy stretch of road and we were still a few days away from getting comfortable with…

In a lagoon north of Mullaitivu is a gold-painted 'victory monument'. It presides over the area where the 'Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam' (LTTE) made their last stand against the Sri Lankan army in 2009.…

A couple of chance encounters highlighted the dueling narratives of Sri Lankan history and the tensions that still remain following the end of the civil war. (more…)

I met my first talkative local wandering Osaka looking for the famous Umeda Sky building. (more…)

The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo is a run-down testament to the ambition of some of Japan's most celebrated post-war architects. (more…)

The small coastal city of Joetsu on Japan's north coast highlights some of the problems facing modern Japan. (more…)

The old capital of Kyoto is home to about 1600 temples and countless smaller shrines. (more…)

The National Library of China holds an artifact that represents what must be the most ambitious attempt to control information in history. (more…)

Beijing incorporates all of the contradictions of Chinese society. (more…)

Huashan is a mountain located  about 120 kilometres east of Xi'an- China's old capital.  It's home to some very dicey walking tracks, a really spectacular set of cable cars, a tea house perched on a…

The entry point for my brief tour of China was the southern Province of Sichuan-famed for its incredibly spicy food and baffling theatrical performances.  I flew into the capital Chengdu at the start of October and explored the…

Another bleary-eyed morning spent rock-hopping in the pre-dawn light to get to a vantage point before sunrise. (more…)

Photos of the streets and waterways around the old Turkish capital. (more…)