You get a sense of the transitional nature of this country as you get into your well-used 1980s right hand drive Toyota for the drive to downtown Yangon. Driving on the right in a right hand drive is not the safest of situations, even before I recalled that the military...

The British Council is releasing over 120 films from our archive dating back to 1934. In the British Council's early years, we were an enthusiastic commissioner and distributor of documentaries, designed to showcase Britain to the outside world and promote democratic values whilst fascism was spreading across Europe.

The films...

SATURDAY
Should one be surprised to hear the Ambassador of the United States telling an audience of students and influential Abu Dhabi elite that his country needed to raise its game and change their narrative in the region? I paraphrase, but he remarked that people in the Gulf thought...