The actions of Brenton Tarrant, the gunman who opened fire on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand last Friday, have sparked outrage across the world. It's also raised the question of how the news media should react to such events. In this article, Lorna Finlayson questions the way the UK media has covered these instances of white supremacist violence and argues that such attacks are not made inevitable by immigration itself, nor by 'difference', but by a media and political class which relentlessly scapegoats immigrants and Muslims while bestowing legitimacy on those who preach hatred against them.

The past month has seen mass protests rock Algeria, forcing president of 20 years Abdelaziz Bouteflika to both abandon his fifth-term bid and postpone the elections themselves. In this article Hocine Belalloufi analyses the prospects for the future of the country.