Digital technologies are a market product and play politics by different means. It’s up to us to harness them for democracy

A hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, exploring John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook The World' on the banks of the Nile

For Granta magazine - A weird relationship with a wondrous city gets weirder still

A series of investigations into how our public spaces are increasingly privately-owned and policed by corporations

Twenty miles east of London, one forgotten port community is on the frontline of a global upheaval. Tilbury's contested history is a window onto our fast-changing political landscape - in Britain, and beyond

In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of 'unclaimed' African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that borders are delicate and volatile things

A series of special reports exploring the legacy of the Marikana mineworker massacre, in South Africa and beyond.

As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions

From the Isle of Dogs to Tower Bridge, just how much of the celebrated Thames riverside is actually open to the general public - and what does it tell us about money, politics and space in contemporary London?

Scotland’s independence referendum isn’t about nationalism. It’s about a system that failed, and a new generation looking to take a chance on itself

In an arena of guns and certainties, other fault lines fade to darkness. This latest wave of state violence aims at destroying the very conditions of audibility in which revolutionary voices can be heard

An exclusive investigation for the Guardian that provoked international outrage, and forced a policy change across Europe

A megacity turns itself inside out

Mohamed Munadi's Tunisian village was barely affected by the uprising, but when Libya erupted he was one of many who fled to new shores

A selection of news, comment and analysis from Jack Shenker’s award-winning Guardian coverage of Egypt’s revolutionary uprising

In Karakalpakstan, an obscure corner of central Asia where the waters of the Aral Sea have turned to desert, Jack Shenker finds a nation fleeing ecological disaster and authoritarian rule

One dodgy car, three irritable companions and 1000km by the Nile: Cairo to Luxor by road.

One hundred years ago, the British explorer WJ Harding King tried and failed to cross Egypt’s myth-laden Western Desert. Jack Shenker follows his footsteps into a once-isolated world on the cusp of transformation.