Author: Gareth Willmer

In September 1522, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe finally returned home. Of the five ships and 270 men that had set sail three years earlier under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, only one vessel and 18 survivors completed the journey. Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines and never made it […]

In September 1522, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe finally returned home. Of the five ships and 270 men that had set sail three years earlier under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, only one vessel and 18 survivors completed the journey. Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines and never made it […]

In September 1522, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe finally returned home. Of the five ships and 270 men that had set sail three years earlier under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, only one vessel and 18 survivors completed the journey. Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines and never made it […]

As cities across Europe sweltered under a heatwave in June 2026, professor Michael Janoschka was focused on a longer term problem: how to make homes affordable and energy-efficient in a continent facing a housing crisis. Janoschka has spent much of his career studying how rising house prices, property speculation and urban inequality are reshaping European […]