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September has a way of feeling like a hinge, the point where the year’s first half and its final stretch meet and this edition of The Canters reflects that in-between energy.
We open with World Watch, where BRICS 2026 sits alongside a look at why the World Nomad Games carry more weight for Central Asia than their sporting billing suggests. Climate Alert follows with a warning that deserves more attention than it will likely get, as a very strong El Niño raises the odds of extreme weather well into 2027. Food for Thought turns closer to home, asking harder questions about what actually ends up on our plates, from titanium dioxide in packaged food to new research suggesting that even the temperature of our tea or coffee might carry more risk than we realized.
Agriculture tells the surprisingly rich story behind the humble chestnut, while Unearthed takes us back thousands of years to the Indus Civilization, a city that disappeared without the historians long assumed it needed. Mind Matters follows with a piece on doomscrolling and brain rot that may hit closer to home than any of us would like to admit.
Our Spotlight this month turns to Salman Iqbal, who talks us through the ambition behind ARY Plus and what it means to carry Pakistani content onto a global stage, alongside a look at the Gaza documentary that has just won a Special Jury Prize at Venice. Game On shifts to a different kind of competition altogether with the World Humanoid Robot Games, a sign of just how far the definition of sport has stretched. We close, as ever with International Days, marking International Literacy Day, World Tourism Day and the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies.
It is a wide-ranging issue and that is rather the point. September asks us to hold several truths at once and we hope this edition helps you do exactly that.
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