The beginning of the break-up of Britain?, Gerry Hassan
Scotland's independence referendum will be held in Autumn 2014. Whatever the people decide, Scotland and the UK will never be the same again. The Scottish constitutional question has shot to the top...
View ArticleThe Akunin-Navalny interviews (part I), Boris Akunin and Alexei Navalny
Just before the last Moscow demonstration on December 24, two of the protest movement’s most popular leaders — writer Boris Akunin and politician-blogger Aleksey Navalny — got together for a...
View ArticleMocking justice: Guantánamo Bay hits ten and is here to stay, Aisha Maniar
Today marks one decade of the illegal prison camp. A personal tragedy for those who remain and a global outrage. Obama's broken promise to close it and British politicians' failure to bring home...
View ArticleDear Mr. Monti, Giuseppe Lenzo
You have a huge opportunity on your hands: responsibility and social justice can be brought back into the Italian system with sacrifice and good governance. Tackling political salaries and the duopoly...
View ArticleAl-Qaida: an open endgame, Paul Rogers
There is powerful evidence for the argument that the al-Qaida movement is in decline. But there are other processes at work - including in United States presidential politics - that could yet create a...
View ArticleWhy migrant mothers die in childbirth in the UK , Ramya Ramaswami
Maternal mortality among black African women in the UK is up to seven times higher than it is among white women. Doctors’ surgeries are misunderstanding their obligations to migrant patients, says Dr...
View ArticleRussia’s ‘White Revolution’: why Putin failed and the Russian democrats may...
By electing to follow an aggressive policy of imperial nationalism, Putin and his inner circle missed the emergence of a serious domestic crisis that threatens the very existence of their regime....
View ArticleBento and Berger, Susan James
In which it is claimed that the practice of drawing can lead two thinkers centuries apart into a new symbiosis opening the way to political transformation. But what kind of transformation? Book review...
View ArticleBeyond Charter: Britain's new age of democratic resistance, Anthony Barnett...
Two of Britain's leading campaigners for democracy discuss the changing nature of the UK's democratic crisis. Two of Britain's leading campaigners for democracy discuss the changing nature of the UK's...
View ArticleoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of January 12th 2012, Charles...
This week's stories reveal how the US continues to pursue militarized action in the War on Drugs, while municipal governments in Canada attempt to address the problem with harm reduction outreach....
View ArticleHow genocide denial legislation confuses law and history, Elfadil Ibrahim
Denial of genocide is not always tantamount to a refutation of the fact that a morally untenable event has taken place. Before we can properly discuss the criminalization of genocide denial, it is...
View ArticleNo news from Wukan: protests are far from an isolated anomaly, Evelyn Chan
The riots that erupted in the southern Chinese village in December, following the death in custody of a peaceful protester, are representative of a wider trend – and not the unique uprising the story...
View ArticleBudapest: thoughts on December 24 , Zsuzsa Ferge
Government campaigns against the poor are nothing new in Hungary. But 2011 saw some unusual developments. As the holiday of love, goodwill, and compassion towards the needy, Christmas seems a good...
View ArticleAct now to defend Occupy London and the right to protest, Rikki
The authorities are acting swiftly to outlaw protests of the kind seen outside St Paul's. Speak out now against this - because every piece of legislation that inhibits the right to peaceful protest is...
View ArticlePerspectives and prospects of negotiating with the Taliban, Djeyhoun Ostowar...
The negotiation of peace settlements with the Taliban remains an unpalatable solution to the problem of reconciliation. Power-sharing with the Taliban will effectively estrange Afghans from their...
View ArticleEurope and democracy-promotion: making good , Jacqueline Hale
The Arab uprisings of 2011 are provoking the European Union into a rethink of its approach to encouraging democracy in its neighbourhood. A European Endowment for Democracy with a new kind of mandate...
View ArticleItaly: racism and risk, Judith Sunderland
The refusal of Italy's official agencies to acknowledge the extent of racist crime in the country reinforces the damage inflicted on its victims, says Judith Sunderland. A 50-year-old man with links...
View ArticleThe Akunin-Navalny Interviews: part II, Alexei Navalny and Boris Akunin
oD Russia continues publication of a remarkable exchange between two leaders of the Russian protest movement — writer Grigory Chkhartishvili, a.k.a Boris Akunin and politician-blogger Aleksey Navalny....
View ArticleDying Inside: the UK needs a national strategy for older prisoners, Rex...
A documentary-maker explores the experience of male older prisoners. My interest in crime and punishment has been one of the three major themes that have come to dominate my career as a documentary...
View ArticleWhat would Scottish independence mean for the North?, Katie Schmuecker
Scotland will have its referendum before the end of 2014. Will independence, or further devolution, be good, bad or indifferent for the North of England? The future of Scotland has hit the headlines...
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