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Isa Muazu, the hunger striker and us, the monster
A man in detention in Britain is close to death having refused food and drink for over 80 days. The government’s response has been to issue an ‘end of life plan’. His death could be a death sentence...
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Erdoğan the peacemaker?
Can the Turkish government successfully manage the emerging conflict within the AKP, revive its foreign policy and negotiate a new relationship with political actors who severely criticize the...
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The myth of peace in Darfur
The National Congress Party’s (NCP) peace agreements, like the DDPD, will never achieve peace as long as their signatories exclude the real actors in the conflict.In July 2011 the Sudanese government...
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Egypt and Russia: strategy or tactics?
The latest rapprochement between Cairo and Moscow can be categorized as tactical rather than strategic; designed to pressure an old ally and enhance the legitimacy of the current regime. Friends like...
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Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Discussions of volunteering in British health-care organisations rarely discuss the possible downside. But we need awkward outsiders.A few years ago, while observing a meeting of a Public Partnership...
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Participatory public engagement: reshaping what it means to be public?
In exactly what ways can participation and public engagement address the contemporary crises of democracy, expertise and legitimacy? Participation Now will provide a public platform for researchers,...
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Sharing our future: how the world can avert climate chaos
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calculated a ‘budget’ for greenhouse gas emissions if global average temperature rise is to be contained within 1.5-2C. Amid fractious...
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Put Vaclav Havel in any election today and he would lose. Is that OK?
In our series on the Polish left, an interview on the future of politics in Europe and beyond for Can Europe make it? with the sociologist, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement in Poland, and...
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Climate change: canary to ghost
The oil-and-gas industry is impervious to extreme weather events, from the Philippines to Sardinia. But both precedent and experience could turn its world upside down - and soon. The climate-change...
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History in the making: the battle for Scotland’s future
As the Scottish government launches its White Paper on Scottish independence, and the Radical Independence Conference prepares to gather, it's easy to get caught up in the debate and miss the fact...
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G4S & Serco fraud: Oops, we couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong
British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that's all right, then.Yesterday, senior executives from Britain's four largest public services...
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Has Siberia had enough of Russia?
With Siberia’s enormous natural resources being mercilessly exploited by Russia, and now China as well, Aleksei Tarasov wonders if the region might some day amount to more than someone else’s...
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Wales, Scotland and the UK
Yesterday, Carwyn Jones, First Minister of Wales, gave a speech at Edinburgh University in which he outlined his case for the union, and for a UK constitution which enshrines devolution. This is the...
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Shining a spotlight on Poland
Poland has long been the subject of offensive stereotypes and a hostile UK media. Our new Spotlight on Poland hopes to shine a light on this misunderstood country.“There has been a history, let's face...
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The road from web 1.984
We are realising that the 'free' services we use online carry huge hidden costs. A totally administered society is being built from billions of moments of self-disclosure. Here Jonny LeRoy, the Head of...
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Nothing left? In search of (a new) social democracy
(Real) social democracy is not just unknown to several generations of voters, but it is contradictory to their individualist or ethnicized worldview. So far the analyses and prospects do not look...
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How to reverse a slow-motion apocalypse
A movement isn’t called that for nothing. It has to move people. It needs lovers, and friends, and allies. It has to generate a cascade of feeling - moral feeling. Apocalyptic climate change is upon...
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From 'Silence Would Be Treason' - the last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa
No, Shell are merely hoping that the government will succeed in “pacifying” the Ogoni and then they will move in proudly and calmly to continue to steal. They are in for a fight they will never...
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A growing madness
It's become far too easy for pharmaceutical companies to market drugs that simply don't do what their supposed to. As alcohol is such a familiar substance this article hypothesises it as a new...
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Frankenstein's bankers - the tale every taxpayer should know
It is now 5 years since the banking crash but its effects are still with us. What exactly happened, what has the world done about it, and is there anything to stop something similar happening again?...
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