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South African youth complex: locating youth in a complicated youth-state...
Faced with high unemployment and widespread social ills, South Africa’s youth are ambivalent towards the state, and emerging as increasingly independent of it. What does this tell us about the present...
View ArticleIs Israel building up for an offensive against Gaza?
Gazans fear another Israeli military offensive is imminent, as Israel flexes its military muscle and Egypt joins the band, beating the drums of war.A rush to exerciseIn November 2013, the Israeli...
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#Iceland3: people who take food from bins should be applauded, not arrested
The British court case against three men who "skipped" food from Iceland supermarket has been dropped. But food waste, food banks, and corporate capitalism are the real political scandal.A spotlight...
View ArticleThe deadly wages of “free trade”
As armed paramilitary groups battle for control of the ports in Buenaventura, the growing violence and internal displacement is a stark reminder of the brutal hand of paramilitary groups in Colombia...
View ArticleThe Arctic disconnect
If long-term climate disruption is a reality, so is the prospect of short-term benefit for states such as Canada and Russia. But their governments' denial of climate change looks back not forward. The...
View ArticleLos mortales costos del “libre comercio”
Mientras grupos paramilitares luchan por el control de los puertos en Buenaventura, la violencia y desplazamiento internal es un fuerte recuerdo de la fuerza brutal en las manos de grupos...
View ArticleIn the hipster's den: the playful politics of #indyref
At a gathering of artists for independence, a new generation of Scots activists gathers over a pint, and learns that, whatever the result of the referendum, they can shape their country.Country:...
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Interview: what was really going on with the lobbying Bill?
OurKingdom's co-editor talks to Graham Allen MP, chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, about the highly controversial lobbying Bill that has just been passed by...
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Can you manage this?
Today's corporate culture leaves little room for concscience, responsibility or scepticism. Today's managers are responsible for everyrhing, but also nothing. Flickr/StrellevikIn management they talk...
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Return of the Empire
At the end of 2013 veteran US statesman Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his fierce anti-Soviet stance, wrote in the Financial Times that Russia would find it impossible to revive its former empire. But...
View ArticleReturning to Europe for the first time
I fear that the value of a European future of democracy and freedom is not a value shared within Europe itself. Read more from our You Tell Us bloggers.We are at a very critical juncture today in...
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This week's window on the Middle East - January 31, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Is Israel building up for an offensive against Gaza? Is Israel...
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'Too narrow' inquiry into British complicity in 1984 Amritsar raid
What to do about accidental disclosures that Thatcher's government advised India on Golden Temple raid? Hold an inquiry. Keep it tight.Letter from Thatcher's Principal Private Secretary, 6 February...
View ArticleEuro elections 2014: You Tell Us (31/01/14) Part One
Young bloggers from across the EU tell us what's on their minds. Leading the week are the events in Ukraine.I'm a 'war generation kid' who would like to know how a united Europe should act and behave...
View ArticleEuro elections 2014: You Tell Us (31/14/14) Part Two
Young bloggers from across the EU tell us what's on their minds. Leading the week are the events in Ukraine.I cannot not care about what happens in UkraineA southern tide to overflow EuropeThe...
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At a knife’s edge: elections and democracy in Thailand
The Kingdom of Thailand, and the wider region in which it stands, resembles a global political laboratory. It is a 21st-century testing ground, a place where the future of democracy is being decided,...
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Euphoria and caution greet a new democratic experiment
Mr. Kejriwal’s supporters now begin to question the legality of his conduct, and his utterances about there being no real democracy in India and about the futility of celebrating Republic Day.Arvind...
View ArticleThe empathy gap: divided Scotland and the problem of fantasyland Britain
The inflammatory and absurd rhetoric of the London political elite is a good example of why the vote should be a Yes.It has become part of the commonsense account of the independence campaign that...
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Yemen’s future: like Tunisia or Libya?
The recent conclusion of the National Dialogue Conference in Yemen might seem to point to progress in that fractured state. But the absence of the rule of law and impartial authority is allowing...
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