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The nation state is in rude health
Neither Britain nor its constituent countries show any sign of wanting to abandon the nation for "global citizenship". The task now is to recognise and accept the specialness rather than superiority...
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Britain and benefit tourism: a story full of holes
What can an EU citizen entering Britain expect from its welfare system? And is this fair? A Citizens Advice Bureau adviser gives us the real story on migrants and benefits. On the one side there’s the...
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The easiest way to the Gulag is to joke about the Gulag
It is time that we realised where the real danger in Europe lies, and that there is a candidate to help us fight back against this gathering danger. But to do this we must begin to recognise how both...
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Myths, falsehoods and misrepresentations about Iran
Chapter seven of ‘A Dangerous Delusion: why the west is wrong about nuclear Iran’ by Peter Oborne and David Morrison, takes up the basic facts in the public domain regarding Iranian possession and...
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Light Touch London
Russians with money love the United Kingdom, where their dodgy assets can be laundered and used to pay their children’s public school fees. But as Euan Grant reports, tax avoidance and evasion, as well...
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With fists in their pockets
In Greece, news of a return to economic growth is more or less meaningless to those thoroughly affected and thoroughly angered. Politicians should focus on repairing people’s lives, not on GDP...
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The far right in Greece and the theory of the two extremes
The far right in Greece has become completely independent from the right, and is turning into a loose canon against New Democracy rather than SYRIZA or the other parties of the centre-left.Golden Dawn...
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Ireland and Brexit: differing paths for the Isles
How would an exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union shape the future relationship between the Republic of Ireland and the UK?Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny and President of the European...
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Are Blair and Cameron subverting the Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq?
A revealing analysis of how the British political class is attempting to keep the lid on its disasterous and dishonest participation in the invasion of IraqTen years after the start of the Iraq war we...
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Sex changes, groupies, and drag queens - all in the family
Our Sunday Comics columnist dips his toes into the water and considers the social and sexual flexibility of the parrotfish, finding resonances with his own kindINLET BEACH, FL – I am reading a...
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The Gezi Park occupation: confronting authoritarian neoliberalism
Gas, gas, gas, it is the only way they deal with problems that come under one heading.On May 28 an impromptu occupation began in Istanbul’s central Gezi Park following the news that the metropolitan...
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The Lib Dem’s and lobbying, an undeclared interest
As another corruption and illegal lobbying scandal hits Westminster it turns out the Lib Dems may have a vested interest in not reforming the system.When the Conservative MP Patrick Mercer was...
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Belonging and entitlement - Britain's 'ethnic majority' and the rise of UKIP
Real or imagined, there is a widespread grievance in Britain's ethnic majority that they no longer come first. Does belonging justify increased entitlement, or is this privilege rightly being swept...
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Understanding the subordination of women in the Arab region: Wilaya
The concept of wilaya(guardianship over women) is key to discrimination against women. Debates over different interpretations of guardianship under Muslim law ultimately fail to address the key...
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The time of the nation: negotiating global modernity
Against the 'contemporary' limits of global capitalism, and the pre-given myths of nationalism, an alternative politics may emerge from the collective construction of 'time'. Problems with the...
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The time is now for wealth taxes in Britain
Taxing wealth is an underexplored option in the UK, given the scale of wealth inequality. A new project confronts this head on, with proposals for radical reform.Private households in the UK own an...
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Sextremism: really as radical as they think?
Where the female body - through its societal projections in media, art, politics and religion - has always formed the first port of women's oppression, it is necessary to consider whether attempts to...
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A Radical Scotland is needed to challenge our forces of conservatism
Who represents Scotland's radical traditions, and what does the future look like? A new book, 'Scotland's Road to Socialism', prompts this question, and explores some uncomfortable truths for the...
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Protests in Turkey: the straw that broke the camel’s back
Increasing monopolisation of power, patriarchal approach to government and a feeling of disenfranchisement by a significant portion of society in the absence of proper public deliberation and dialogue...
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Gezi: the park that shook up Turkey
What unites the most heterogeneous opposition bloc Turkey has seen in the last two decades is a common protest against a government which interprets majoritarian democracy as 'the tyranny of the...
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