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Pro-nuclear propaganda in 1983: lessons for 2013
Labour's nuclear disarmament policies of the 1980s were not to blame for electoral failure, argues Rebecca Johnson. A sensible, fact-based debate about Trident replacement requires Ed Miliband to...
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The British Police: getting away with murder since 1969
827 people have died during or following police contact since 2004. Families have struggled hard for justice, encountering multiple failures and police collusion from the IPCC. Why is police...
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Nazi sympathisers allowed to run UK radio stations?
Is a firm with ties to the promotion of SS troops as 'heroes', despite their units being involved in war crimes, a deserving owner of a UK radio station?The sorry saga of the ownership of the heavily...
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Your medical data - on sale for a pound
The arbitrary resetting of people’s ‘privacy settings’ is a behaviour one might expect of Facebook, not the NHS.Picture: Flickr / Community Eye Health. Some rights reserved.The government’s...
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JULY: Court rejects UK gov attempt to send transplant patient to her death —...
JULY: Rejoicing in Yorkshire as Home Secretary is denied her wish to deport Roseline Akhalu to Nigeria. AUGUST: Akhalu granted leave to remain.UPDATE 9 August 2013: Roseline Akhalu heard today that the...
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Has the US decided that the leadership of the Arab world goes to Saudi Arabia?
Qatar’s new Emir swiftly congratulated the interim Egyptian president, Adly Mansour, who was appointed by the Egyptian army. This was in stark contrast to the fatwa issued on July 6, 2013 by Al...
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Tunisia and the divided Arab Spring
Mutual fear may prevail and the use of force be felt necessary. Exactly this plays into the hands of the parasites inside the apparatus who are busy transforming themselves into a self-governing body...
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How not to do diplomacy
The Gibraltar row between the UK and Spain is providing a masterclass in creating adversarial relationships. British foreign policy under Cameron and Hague has moved from interests to images. It is...
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Everything
Our Sunday Comics author stumbles upon a single childhood curseword as he gives us his version of everythingA monk toiled away for decades in isolation in an ice-bound Himalayan monastery, shivering...
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Berlusconi: has the Artful Dodger met his match?
Unlike Oliver Twist's friend, Berlusconi will not end up in a penal colony, or indeed in a prison cell, but will continue to be an uncomfortable presence in Italian political life. For how...
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Jordan’s crossroads in the Arab Spring
Twin disaffection on the part of both Syrians and Palestinians in Jordan, further fuelled by the spillover effects of the Arab Spring should be put in historical context. Both Palestinians and Syrians...
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The road to federal consociationalism
Many Israeli Jewish intellectuals, activists and politicians over the years have spoken out clearly for a one-state solution. They were very aware of the consequences of war and conflict, and arrived...
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Turkey’s Gezi Park episode is far from over
Paradoxically, Gezi Park presented Erdoğan with a golden opportunity, one that could also have helped Turkish democracy part company from the tendency of powerful political parties to drift into...
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Academies of hatred
A series of public events in Wrocław, Poland’s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals. Those responsible are not only supported by the main right-wing opposition party....
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Labour's nuclear disarmament opportunity in blast from the past
The latest indecision on the renewal of Trident places a further rift in the Coalition's relationship and poses an opportunity for Labour to form a nuclear disarmament plan. Could this cause a shift in...
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Migrant-bashing as a PR stunt
The UKBA "racist vans" have caused a great deal of unrest through their racially profiled spot checks. What were the real causes and aims of this grubby campaign?Flickr/ Some rights reserved.I would...
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A tale of ideologies: Scottish nationalism and unionism
Scottish nationalism and unionism stand in complete opposition, but are there greater similarities between their ideologies than the UK cares to admit?Flickr/The Laird of Oldham. Some rights...
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Protest politics and the ethical imagination
Protest, like marriage, means re-imagining relations to self and other. The Taksim Square Book Club - in which demonstrators in Istanbul stood silently and read books - used reflection as a riposte to...
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Looking beyond the US-Russia stalemate
The cancellation of Obama's September meeting with Putin has led some observers to predict doom for the arms control agenda. But beyond this bilateral sticking point, inter-state agendas are on the...
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Constitutional Reform – the creeping transformation of Italy
In the summer lethargy, the Italian government is attempting to pass new constitutional amendments that would take power away from Parliament and concentrate it in the executive branch's hands. Public...
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