Joshua Stein

ViaNews correspondent for the United Kingdom - Master of Arts (M.A.), German and History | The University of Edinburgh. Journalist contact: joshuastein@vianews.info

Rohingya children playing at a UNICEF child-friendly area, financed by UK aid, inside Batukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo credit: Anna Dubuis /DFID

Understanding Separatisms Across the World: Kurdistan, Biafra, and Rohingya

LONDON (ViaNews) – November 2017. The Biafran separatist movement in Nigeria is blacklisted a “storm in a teacup” with just a “few noisy people involved”, by the Nigerian information minister, Lai Mohammed. Separatism, after all, is not limited to the European continent. Biafra, Rakhine, and Kurdistan: 3 separatist centers outside of Europe. The ethnic, linguistic,…

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New York protest "Holding hands for Catalan independence". Photo by: Liz Castro.

Europe’s Separatist Movements: What Brings Them Together and What Holds Them Apart – Spain, Scotland, Italy, and Belgium

LONDON (ViaNews) – “The Catalan crisis poses a threat to the European order” warned the Financial Times on October 6, following the state’s independence referendum a few days before. 3 years ago it was the Scottish vote which cast doubt and worry for many in the continent, with former leader of the Scottish National Party,…

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Sir Henry Havelock statue in Trafalgar Square.

From Streets and Squares of Charlottesville to Britain: A colonial Past Remembered or Ignored?

London, UK (VIAnews) – The Charlottesville downing of Robert E Lee’s statue in the United States of America. Evidence that colonial and historical memory in the country is, once again, at the forefront of public scrutiny. For protestors demanding the statue’s removal, Lee represents the racist Confederate defense of the slavery institution in the 19th…

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United Kingdom and Euro flag.

German Woes and British Hopes for Brexit: Coverage in British and German Newspapers

The Daily Mail praised it as a “historic” referendum, which frees “Britain from the chains that have bound us to an unelected, unaccountable Brussels for 45 years”, in February of this year. Allister Heath, from The Telegraph, in turn, called on the British government to “believe passionately” in Brexit, saying that the “Battle for Brexit…

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