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Uh-Oh Levels: England's teachers are right to fear the impact of the EBacc
Michael Gove's critics have been accused of blindly slating anything he proposes without fully listening. Yet this latest policy, grounded in a blind obsession with a return to the 'good old days' of...
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‘We think of Zakir as Nick Clegg’: Taliban perspectives on reconciliation
This summer, former leading figures in the Afghan Taliban and former mediators met the authors to discuss Taliban ideas for a peace settlement. This RUSI briefing paper, affords rare insights into...
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Hungary: the vanguard of Europe’s rearguard?
Confrontation takes creative and alternative forms in the street demonstrations, which may appear, at first sight, contradictory – one week anti-government, pro-European, the next week pro-government,...
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The US media’s schizophrenic approach to mass shootings
Yet again, the Aurora shooting showed how far away we are from truly "color blind" media reporting on crime. It is time to reflect on how being a white, middle-class male may also be part of the...
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One-third of humanity: peasant rights in the United Nations
The United Nations are moving towards a finalization of a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. In 2007 the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous...
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Reflections on the resurgence of Naxalism
The Naxalite movement has seen a dramatic resurgence in popularity, particularly in the rural parts of India, as the economic reforms of the 1990s left parts of India by the wayside. The Indian...
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The rise of the sharing economy
The networked world allows an unprecedented degree of collaboration within communities. This could enable a new kind of economy - in Britain and elsewhere. This piece was originally published in the...
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The end of the 'Great British Summer'
'The Great British Summer' of 2012 is well and truly over. OurKingdom takes a rollercoaster journey back through the season to close its series. This piece ends the OurKingdom series, The Great...
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Orchestrating democracy
If a lesson may be learned from the big live laboratory of democracy that is Italy, it might be the awareness that democracy requires failsafe mechanisms of early-warning to protect the enlightenment...
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In crisis-ridden Europe, euroscepticism is the new cultural trend
As the euro crisis becomes increasingly inextricable, European solidarity erodes. What if the new cultural common denominator between northern and southern Europe was contempt for the Union? "Where do...
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Geopolitics, energy and the Great African Lakes
The spectres of colonialism are haunting Eastern Africa. A border dispute between Malawi and Tanzania over the Lake Malawi/Nyasa have re-emerged after a British corporation was given the green light...
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Rigging elections, Ukrainian-style
On 28th October Ukrainians go to the polls to elect a new parliament, but it is already clear that the election will not be fought by fair means. Sergii Leshchenko outlines the various, and sometimes...
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Occupy a narrative
One year on, the Occupy movement is but the shadow of its former self. Whatever happened to the 99%? OWS protesters mark one year anniversary of the movement. Demotix/Scot Surbeck. All rights...
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Dummy candidates, disillusioned voters: ‘United Russia’ in a tight corner
A small city near Moscow is electing a mayor. Not the most startling news, perhaps, but the ruling party seems to have changed places with the opposition. Things are more topsy-turvey than usual and...
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Iran: the deescalatory options
We are indeed witnessing a slide towards fewer positive options, but such slides can be reversed. Iran is ready to negotiate, just not on the terms offered by the West. There are, of course, many...
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Post-election Georgia: turning the dream of peace into reality?
Georgian Dream Coalition's election victory will go down in history as Georgia's first peaceful transition of power. The nominees for the new cabinet now also bring names to the fore with long...
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Women are the key to the presidential debate and election
In round two of the presidential debates, Biden might have done a better job than Obama of exposing the salesmanship of the Romney-Ryan campaign, but he did little to regain lost ground with respect...
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Stateless in Burma: Rohingya word wars
In order to understand how the ‘Rohingya crisis’ has come to pass we need to consider the narrative built by three groupings of international actors - the Burmese government, host countries for...
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London: uncovering European identity in a global city?
The absence of Europe on any agenda - as an object of critique, a space of solidarity, or a target of reform - seemed to suggest that, while London may be a global city, it is not, politically at...
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Bo Xilai's fall: echo and portent
The disgrace of a powerful party boss is a familiar theme in Chinese communist history. But the awareness of a new Chinese public means that the elite can no longer manage the problem so easily, says...
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