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Charter to dismantle the plutocratic model of the Bulgarian state
An independent civil initiative to restore democracy and the rule of law in Bulgaria.Flickr/Visha Angelova. Some rights reserved.This is a translation of the official Bulgarian text of the 'Charter to...
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The framing wars of June 30th
The truly revolutionary forces, the youth, the student movements, the un-coopted left and the unions, have yet to crystallize and present a credible, practical & feasible vision to the Egyptian...
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From regionalism to free trade: Europe’s dangerously mixed messages to Latin...
A recent paradigm shift in the EU's foreign policy threatens to undo years of successful European stability-building efforts on the Latin American continent. Europe needs to confront its own mistakes...
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International NGOs supporting grassroots movements: who talks and who listens?
In a world where elites cannot be trusted to look out for the interests of the poor, mass mobilisations are important. We need to examine the links between INGOs and grassroots movements, and find out...
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Still locked out
The states in greatest difficulty since 2008 have been those most closely wedded to neoliberalism and accommodating to the needs of transnational capital. One hundred years on from the Dublin Lockout,...
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Policing Bahrain: the long arm of the British
Just after the Arab Spring was brutally crushed in Bahrain, Britain's John Yates, the former Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner, became an advisor to the Ministry of Interior. What happened...
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Chasing accountability; facing impunity
Bahrain's attempt to hold the state security services to account is channeled through campaigning, lobbying and of course the revolution itself. But what help are the official channels, and the law?The...
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Whose Police?
Do the police serve the public, or are they a force of elite control? openSecurity's series opens up this question to citizens, analysts and activists around the world: where does security come from?In...
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Entrepreneurial policing? International policing challenges
The exportation of policing is a global growth industry in which the UK plays a major role. Recent years have seen the proliferation of private security company involvement in international policing,...
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Disruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest
From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of intelligence-led policing. Deployed within the policing of protest, it poses a grave threat to the...
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Curing the poison of "rankism"
The cancer of “rankism” persists as a residue of our predatory past. But the urge to dominate others isn’t working any more. Using weapons of mass disruption, the disenfranchised can bring modern life...
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Does the BBC not trust US intelligence on Iran?
If the BBC wants to speculate on Iranian nuclear capabilities and the potential for conflict, why is it ignoring the clear consensus of US intelligence, and for what purpose?On 28 May 2013, BBC Radio 4...
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Nigeria’s fourteen-year sentence for gay marriage
Britain and the United States have aligned foreign aid with gay rights and have threatened to cut aid to Nigeria if the current bill is passed.Last month, my country inched closer to the outright...
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Drawn into conflict: the war in Syria and the consequences for the Lebanese...
As the Syrian conflict spills over the border, the Lebanese tourist and trade sectors have taken a hit. It is imperative that Lebanon breaks its political deadlock and avoids sectarian conflict at all...
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Paying for private failure in England's NHS - again
The NHS is paying millions to a failed private Treatment Centre to escape a contract after a series of patient deaths - and the figures don't quite add up.The NHS has had to pay private healthcare...
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Guilty or innocent? Let the courts decide
How pre-trial publicity threatens the administration of justice.Katie Sambrooks is undergraduate joint winner of the John Howard Essay Prize 2013. The question was: Trial by tabloids: Do the media...
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Trial by tabloids
Media misbehaviour can wreak havoc on ordinary lives — is it worth it?Rose Harvey is the postgraduate winner of the John Howard Essay Prize 2013. The question was: Trial by tabloids: Do the media...
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Penal reformers of the future?
Congratulations to Rose Harvey, Katie Sambrooks and Christian Rowlands. OurKingdom publishes the winners of this year's John Howard Essay Prize, in association with the Howard League for Penal Reform...
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Bizarre trials in UAE
The logic of the authorities is truly Orwellian – the only offence of the ‘criminals’ was thought crime.A bizarre trial has started in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Waleed al-Shehhi is facing charges...
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How to fry a planet
Don't for a second imagine we are heading for an era of renewable energy.Look at it any way you want, and if you’re not a booster of fossil fuels on this overheating planet of ours, it doesn’t look...
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