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Elected police commissioners: an opportunity for extremists?
If the current dearth of participation in the first Police and Crime Commissioner elections in England and Wales is anything to go by, the new system may provide an opportunity for far right political...
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The far right beyond the stereotype: monetarism, media and the middle classes
Daniel Trilling, author of the new book Bloody Nasty People, talks to Jamie Mackay about the prevailing myths surrounding the far right, the demographic of its leadership and support, and the forms of...
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What do the British people think of the English Defence League?
New polling shows the British people's attitudes to the far-right street protest movement. Three-quarters of Britons (74%) who think that they know enough about the English Defence League to form a...
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The ‘Russian Mafia’ and organised crime: how can this global force be tamed?
We hear a lot about Russian organised crime and its links with the Russian state. But it operates not just at home: its reach is global. Euan Grant explains how it operates and what can be done to...
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Code Pink, the Taliban and Malala Yousafzai
The US antiwar movement is failing to develop a politics that is critical of both US imperialism and fundamentalist movements like the Taliban. The US antiwar group Code Pink, which describes itself...
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The Press and Leveson, it will be war
The introduction to a Penguin Special on why Britain does not have the press it deserves and what should be done - in the lead up to the Leveson Report. This is the introduction to Everybody's Hacked...
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"Who does this world belong to?" - unaccompanied immigrant children in Italy
Unaccompanied immigrant children in Italy have left their countries hoping to find a job and better opportunities, but their aspirations quickly fade away. Often, they risk being exploited to work in...
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Double jeopardy: LGBTI refugees in Britain
Issues facing LGBTI refugees are receiving unprecedented attention in Britain yet many still face a ‘double jeopardy’ of racism and homophobia. We need to make the most of the current support for...
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Hobsbawm’s legacy for Labour
Despite all the compliments, we are entitled to ask: what has Britain’s current Labour Party really learned from Eric Hobsbawm? Eric Hobsbawm’s legacy will live on far and wide. Among the attributes...
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Ukraine and Belarus: the dawn of change?
Rigged elections and corruption in post-Soviet states such as Belarus and Ukraine are hardly news. Ukraine’s shift towards authoritarianism has highlighted new similarities between the two countries....
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Our Africa: mapping African women's critical resistance
Echoing through analysis on Our Africa over the past year is a recognition and interrogation of women as authors and innovators of culture, as agents of history, and as complex political actors. These...
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Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia: changing but unsinkable
It is too easy for armchair analysts, in the cosyness of their far away study, to deliver a death sentence to the historical reputation of a man who did what he thought was the only, the final thing...
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Syria: neo-anti-imperialism vs reality
Much leftist analysis of Syrian events is trapped by a dogmatic outlook that combines a warped view of geopolitics with inattention to local realities, says Vicken Cheterian. Why are there no...
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Britain is in crisis - Miliband’s One Nation may signal a way out
Britain needs a national conversation on its imperilled political and moral culture. Has the Labour leader had the first word? Ed Miliband’s recent evocation of Benjamin Disraeli’s One Nation...
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London's not yet ready to love its bankers
The author finds himself debating whether the intelligence squared forum in London should vote to "love its Bankers", in a meeting well-stocked with the subject themselves. London should love its...
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Who are the Conservatives now? The One Nation debate
Ed Miliband’s confident evocation of the Tory mantra ‘One Nation’ speaks volumes about the Conservative Party's failure to conserve its ideological roots. But who will benefit from the land grab?...
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Philippines Peace Agreement – why this one is different
Nonviolent Peaceforce has not just been ‘monitoring’ the ceasefire in Mindanao. NP teams have been out there every day actually ‘peacekeeping’ in the true sense of that word: addressing concrete...
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Single nation, double logic: Ed Miliband and the problem with British...
British identity is open and dynamic; those of the nations narrow and bigoted. So goes the 'One Nation' narrative, a logic of dominance and hypocrisy. In the 1970s debates about devolution in Wales...
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Remote control, a new way of war
The proliferating use of armed drones is but part of a wider and dangerous shift in the nature of 21st-century warfare. The extension of armed drones as a weapon of war is reflected in the way that...
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The first anniversary of democracy in Tunisia is a few days away: is there...
Tunisians went to the polls almost exactly one year ago, in their first and free elections, the major outcome of the revolution. Today, Tunisia stands fragmented politically, its economy is struggling...
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