You Might Want To Change Your Locks After Watching This Lock-Picking Video

We’ve all been there. You locked yourself out of your apartment, lost the key to your bike lock, or wanted to steal the contents of a mysterious-looking shipping container (kidding). So, what’s an average person to do? Learn from the experts—on YouTube, of course. In a video released May 30, YouTube user HelpfulLockPicker breaks down …

Zones of turbulence in the wake of EU-Turkey’s migration agreement

Lefteris Pitarakis/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved. ‘Zones of turbulence’, was a term that the economic historian Fernand Braudel used to describe areas of market instability that were controlled and manipulated by an ‘exalted merchant class’. A few wealthy merchants, Braudel says, in eighteenth-century Amsterdam or sixteenth-century Genoa could throw whole sectors of the European …

Labour must fight for our European rights (neither Corbyn nor his opponents have got the response to the crisis right)

Remain campaigning the day before the referendum vote. Geoff Caddick / Press Association. All rights reserved.It is becoming clear that Labour faces a potentially fatal dilemma over its response to the Brexit vote, and above all to the question of the free movement of people across borders. The deadly standoff between Jeremy Corbyn and the …

Remotely-controlled weapons hit democracy: killing from a distance

Supporters listening to Nicolas Sarkozy, UMP candidate for the presidential elections during his last campaign meeting on May 3, 2007 in Montpellier, France. ABACA/ Press Association. All rights reserved.National electorates have lost their primacy in deciding the outcome of their elections. They have the vote and they go to the polling booths, but their choice …

The guilt, dignity and pedagogy of shamelessness

Inscription at the gate of the Bełżec Holocaust Memorial. The Nazi extermination camp in Bełżec (pronounced [ˈbɛu̯ʐɛt͡s], in German: Belzec) in the Eastern Poland, operated from 17 March 1942 to the end of December. It is estimated that between 430,000 and 500,000 Jews were murdered at Bełżec. Photos by Adam Chmielewski. The author was born …

To be or not to be: the future of opposition in post-referendum Turkey

Turkish Opposition Party Republican People's Party (CHP) Leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu attends a "NO" campaign meeting on March 28, 2017, in Kocaeli, three weeks ahead of the referendum on an executive presidency.Depo Photos/Press Association. All rights reserved.The most significant result of the April 16 referendum in Turkey seems to be that noone but the President Recep …

Warriors Coach Mike Brown Nearly Arrested While Driving To The Game

With Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr unable to lead the team because of health issues, assistant coach Mike Brown has taken the reigns of the NBA’​s best team, leading them to 10 straight wins in this years’​ playoffs. Apparently, however, no one told the police he was now in charge. On his way …

The end of anonymity? Trump and the tyranny of the majority

Protesters stand in solidarity with the "Native Nations Rise" march on Washington, D.C. against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Portland, Ore., on March 10, 2017.Alex Milan Tracy/Press Association. All rights reserved. Long before the trickle of anonymous leaks from the White House became a steady downpour, President Trump delivered a characteristically meandering …

Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes For Daring To Say All Children Should Have Health Care

On May 2, Jimmy Kimmel took time out of his opening monologue on his late-night talk show to share an emotional plea with the American government: Make health care affordable for all.  The heartfelt appeal came after the birth of Kimmel’s own son, Billy, who was born with a dangerous heart defect. After a life-saving surgery, Kimmel’s son …