Free as a bird
A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness
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November / December 2024
Issue
Freedumb, you say?
The pandemic exposed how quickly freedom could become expendable
Democracy inaction
From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom
The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan
Imprisoned for a quarter-century, the Kurdish leader has been all but forgotten
People
THE INTERVIEW
Shami Chakrabarti
Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression
REPUTATIONS
Pasquale Paoli
The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders
Comment
Life
The high life
A cannabis crawl through Cali culture
The big one
The 1990 City Bonds Robbery made the £26m Brink’s-Mat gold bullion haul seem like child’s play
Rule-breaker
It took a lifetime of going against the grain to realise how precious freedom is
