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The long road to retaliation: delayed airstrikes in Syria will exacerbate the...
Rapid, punitive airstrikes two and a half weeks ago, while certainly displacing some Syrians, would have been less likely to lead to larger numbers of refugees.As many columnists and news pieces noted...
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More competition medicine - now it's your GP's turn
GPs are the most cost-effective part of England's NHS - so why is the government so keen to make radical changes to address the lack of 'competition'?Image: Vaguely Artistic / Flickr. Some rights...
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Germany's election campaign: Terminally, terminally boring
The German election campaign lacks vision and fresh ideas. This is no accident. It’s the tactical brilliance of Angela Merkel.Flickr/Abode of Chaos. Some rights reserved.There is a Chinese proverb:...
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American Cold War foreign policy and the Egyptian military
US support for the Egyptian military is inhibiting the development of an Egyptian national, progressive bourgeoisie able to form the backbone of a genuinely democratic system.The logic of American...
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Der Himmel über Europa - weekly comments roundup
A look at this week's best reader comments on our Can Europe make it? debate. Would the two angels who watched over Berlin in 1987 recognise the country today? "Germany has crumbled into as many small...
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Syria: the case for intervention
The political balance in the west is moving against military involvement in Syria. Such a choice will ensure the prolongation of war, chaos, extremism, and humanitarian disaster. Only intervention will...
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What to do in Syria?
The war in Syria is illegal. If a criminal had poisoned someone, our concern would be how to protect the public from future poisonings and how to arrest the criminal and bring him (or her) before a...
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Britain’s chemical responsibility
To truly understand the need for Britain to make peaceful inroads with Syria, we must look back to the tragedies handed down to us by our predecessors.Flickr/UK Ministry of Defence. Some rights...
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Response to Curzon Price on a British devaluation
Devaluation alone is not the solution to the UK's economic woes. But it is the necessary foundation needed for other policies to work.Flickr/Ihongchou. Some rights reserved.I am really grateful to Tony...
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Empathy, democracy and the economy
Democracy is lost unless we re-structure our economies, and re-structuring our economies requires a new system based on different values. This is the sixth article in our series on empathy and...
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Three Turkish misconceptions about Morsi
Shouldn't we truly try to understand Egyptian politics rather than defaulting to competing polarization narratives?Despite the continuing impasse in Egypt, the country as it was under ousted President...
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The limits of populism and ‘couprevolution’
History has traditionally situated the terms 'revolution' and 'military coup' as widely opposing. In Egypt, however, the two terms are entangled as never before. Ahmad Hosni explains the concept of...
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Chile, 11 September 1973: death and birth of a nation
The military coup of forty years ago inaugurated a long period of dictatorship and human-rights violation. But its profound legacy also includes long-term economic and political effects, says Patricio...
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Modi, empire and the bandwagon of human rights
If an arrest warrant against Modi is suggested on the grounds of ‘universal jurisdiction’, will the author extend the same argument for a similar intervention on the part of the Indian judiciary, say,...
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Nothing will ever be the same again…
The recent hotly-contested Moscow mayoral election ended, as predicted, with victory for government candidate Sergey Sobyanin. But Aleksey Navalny did much better than expected, as did opposition...
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The Hill to the rescue on Syria? Don’t hold your breath
Will members of the Senate and the House grasp the opportunity to undertake an urgently needed reassessment of America’s War for the Greater Middle East? Sometimes history happens at the moment when no...
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UK police and (anti) fascist protests - a bad joke
With 286 anti-fascists arrested this weekend - one of the biggest mass arrests of protestors in recent history - one of them asks questions of British policing: what is their aim: are they controlling...
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Chile's coup: the perspective of forty years
The military seizure of power in Chile on 11 September 1973 continues to influence the country's politics, and its reverberations around the world were also to last for decades. Alan Angell, a...
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It's all right for Michael Gove
The UK education minister blames food bank clients for their poverty. The man himself takes, time and time again.The other day education secretary Michael Gove dropped in on a food bank. He told MPs:...
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James O'Connell and peace studies
James O'Connell, who has died at the age of 87, was through testing years head of Bradford University's department of peace studies. His successor pays tribute to a remarkable figure whose experiences...
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