Samira Ahmed is a journalist. She presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on the BBC News Channel. Her documentary I Dressed Ziggy Stardust was first broadcast in 2013
Bill Thompson is a well-known technology journalist and advisor to arts and cultural organisations on matters related to digital technologies. He appears weekly on Click on BBC World Service radio and writes a monthly column for Focus magazine.
He is Head of Partnership Development for the BBC Archive, a member of the boards of Writers’ Centre Norwich, Britten Sinfonia and The Collections Trust, and a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art.
Bill Thompson is a well-known technology journalist and advisor to arts and cultural organisations on matters related to digital technologies. He appears weekly on Click on BBC World Service radio and writes a monthly column for Focus magazine.
He is Head of Partnership Development for the BBC Archive, a member of the boards of Writers’ Centre Norwich, Britten Sinfonia and The Collections Trust, and a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art.
The ghosts of Baku
Rebecca Vincent was forced out of Azerbaijan, the country she loved, because of her human rights work. But the journalists and activists she left behind in the "land of fire" suffered far worse fates
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Left to their own devices
The British hard left has been energised by the elevation of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party. But is this really a red dawn? Paul Anderson and Kevin Davey, authors of Moscow Gold: The Soviet Union And The British Left, trace the advances and setbacks of the UK's Leninists since 9/11, and ask if life in the mainstream will make or break revolutionary socialism
The British hard left has been energised by the elevation of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party. But is this really a red dawn? Paul Anderson and Kevin Davey, authors of Moscow Gold: The Soviet Union And The British Left, trace the advances and setbacks of the UK's Leninists since 9/11, and ask if life in the mainstream will make or break revolutionary socialism
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The picture that defines 2015
Ghias Aljundi fled Syria after four years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Assad regime. In 2015, he returned to the Mediterranean to help the thousands of refugees from his homeland arriving on the beaches of Lesbos. In October, photographer Lefteris Partsalis captured the moment when Ghias called for help for a Syrian boy he feared dead, in an image that sums up the horror and compassion that have defined 2015
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James O’Malley is Interim Editor of Gizmodo UK
James O’Malley is Interim Editor of Gizmodo UK
Natalia Antonova is a journalist and playwright. She has written for The Guardian, Mashable, openDemocracy, Newsweek, The Moscow Times and others. She was the last editor of The Moscow News, Russia's oldest English language newspaper, before it was shut down after the Kremlin liquidated its parent news agency, RIA Novosti.
Natalia Antonova is a journalist and playwright. She has written for The Guardian, Mashable, openDemocracy, Newsweek, The Moscow Times and others. She was the last editor of The Moscow News, Russia's oldest English language newspaper, before it was shut down after the Kremlin liquidated its parent news agency, RIA Novosti.