
On New Year’s Day 2016, the world woke up to news that the night before around a thousand migrants had swarmed Cologne’s city centre and sexually assaulted hundreds of women. As the horrifying truth of what occurred that evening slowly began to emerge over the course of the following week, people both in Germany and beyond responded with shock. A decade on, it is now clear that the Cologne sex attacks were a pivotal moment in Europe’s history.





The deputy director of the US’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group warns that Republican governors’ steps to declare his organization a “terrorist organization” won’t stop with the Muslim community.





Not everything needs to make sense in life, but when a situation seems inexplicable, it may well be that we simply don’t want to admit the truth. The answer to what bedevils us is usually staring us in the face.