Amanda Power

In recent months, the public have been made aware of the Snowden revelations about the extent to which electronic communications have been intercepted, the secret laws that facilitate the programme, the intimidation of those working

History will tell us whether there is more to Benedict XVI's abdication than Monday’s Vatican press statement about his advanced age and deteriorating strength. In the meantime, it is the novelty of the move that

Imagining the end of the world is one of humanity’s most perverse pleasures. For decades, cinema-goers have been treated to apocalypse by rogue planet, asteroid, earth’s core overheating, earth’s core stopping, climate-changing super-storm, melting polar