Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
AS the Docklands Light Railway wound towards Custom House, the number of police waiting at stations en route became disconcerting.
Looking down from the train to the streets below, rows of police vans could be seen parked up next to protest camps.
More than 100 activists had already been arrested in the days leading up to Britain’s largest arms fair, the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), and I felt it was increasingly unlikely the organisers would let me in.
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
SYLVIA HIKINS casts an eye across the contemporary art brought to a city founded on colonialism and empire


