This is the campaign film for #xxvote to get more young women voting in the UK. It was made by young women and was shot and edited in a week which is pretty impressive! 

Living in a city roughly doubles the risk of schizophrenia is one of the conclusions emerging from research relating to mental health and living in cities. Cities fit for people, rather than exhaust pipes; cities where residents are happier, have improved physical and mental wellbeing, sleep better, live longer. In our age of deficit fetishism, the success of a policy is judged by its economic returns, rather than whether it improves the lives of living, breathing human beings. But a new study suggests that cities that invest in encouraging their citizens to be physically active reap both financial and human rewards.

More than 300 leading migration experts have denounced plans for military action against Libyan smugglers as reminiscent of the actions of countries that enabled the 18th century slave trade. Read more

With economic decay, war, persecution and unemployment gripping at least a dozen countries on Europe’s southern rim, the surge of migration north has overwhelmed authorities in Europe, which has struggled to articulate a single coherent policy and, say critics, played into the hands of unscrupulous people traffickers.

The Journey: A Syrian refugee sets his sights on Sweden - and freedom

In the darkness far out to sea, Hashem Alsouki can’t see his neighbours but he can hear them scream. It’s partly his fault. They are two African women – perhaps from Somalia, but now is not the time to ask – and Hashem is spreadeagled on top of them. His limbs dig into theirs. They would like him to move, fast, and so would he. But he can’t – several people are sprawled on top of him, and there’s possibly another layer above them.Dozens are crammed into this wooden dinghy. If anyone tries to shift, a smuggler kicks them back into place. They don’t want the crammed boat to overbalance, and then sink.

Despite Germany's strong economic performance and low unemployment rate, the percentage of people living below the poverty line continued its steady increase last year, with poverty in urban areas driving the trend.

In his book The Pinch, David Willetts, argued that the baby-boomer generation – those born between 1945 and 1965 – had done much better financially than the generations that came before and after. They have enjoyed record rates of home ownership, benefitting hugely from house-price growth that has far outpaced growth in average incomes. Thanks to a welfare state settlement that has worked in their favour, they will draw more out than they paid in. Many have generous defined-benefit pension schemes that have now all but disappeared from the private sector.Crucially, Willetts argued, baby boomers have enjoyed these benefits at the direct expense of younger generations. Spiralling house prices have locked many young people out of home ownership altogether, and it is younger workers who will end up paying for the generous benefits and pensions that baby boomers will be drawing down. Thus The Pinch paves the way for a new discourse about intergenerational conflict.

The Podemos revolution: how a small group of radical academics changed European politics

The Greek  referendum is a fight between the Greeks and Europe’s cruel capitalism

The reason to watch  what’s going on in Greece this week is because a population of 11 million will hold a contest that the rest of us may one day also get to stage: a fight between democracy, and a broken political and economic system.

The scandal of youth unemployment: The choice of a new generation

MEPs analyse the EU Commission's migration agenda

10 EU Migrant Crisis Facts

Dire Warning from the IPCC - We are Doomed !

Adapting to Climate Change: An Investigative Report from the BASE Broadcast Studio