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Over by Christmas – the non-debate that is BBC Charter renewal
Who is talking about BBC Charter renewal? Relatively few people. And it’s not too soon to start.The old BBC television Centre - wikimediaThe BBC is one of the most important institutions in the...
View ArticlePolitics as a vocation in a post-democratic age
A lecture first given at Warwick University on how we should think about political leadership in contemporary democracies, against a background of declining participation in representative democracy,...
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Five movies that show the power of nonviolent resistance during World War II
Hardly a year goes by without at least one new Hollywood film about the Nazis and World War II. But these offerings rarely feature the many Germans who resisted Hitler using nonviolence.Sophie Scholl...
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Gentrification: how do we define it and who cares anyway?
Rather than fighting over what gentrification is and what it's not, attention needs to paid to the actual experiences of urban change effecting communities across the world.Banner at anti-eviction...
View ArticleWhy the universities strikes are about more than just a ‘measly’ pay offer
It's not just the money, it's the direction our marketised universities are taking - enormous rewards at the top combined with a race to the bottom approach for all other staff, and a system of fees...
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Trans rights: Poland's last iron curtain
A new iron curtain in Poland is being drawn between mainstream society and its most vulnerable groups. Part of our series on What's Left in Poland?Warsaw Equality Parade 2012. Demotix/Lukasz...
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Murder and Mexico’s security dilemma
Why is Mexico mired in organised, drug-related murder? In an extreme case of security dilemmas increasingly familiar elsewhere, the state has ceded its monopoly of legitimate force to irregular...
View ArticleEgyptian editors organise to confront media crisis
The military-backed government has sought to enrol journalists as foot-soldiers in its battle against the ousted Muslim Brotherhood. But when editors met this week in Cairo, a collective spirit...
View ArticleWhy we must get it right for every child in Scotland
Does the Scottish Government's proposed Children and Young People Bill represent an "unacceptable intrusion on liberty" that "could actually harm the state's ability to track genuinely at risk...
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Taking democracy seriously demands that we identify and address the danger of...
What institutions do we need to secure our freedom from the danger of oligarchy? From Machiavelli to modern Brazil, there is much to learn...Republican political theory has undergone a marked revival...
View ArticleIvan Krastev: Balkan smuggler of ideas
In In Mistrust we Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?Ivan Krastev concentrates on why we live under conditions of “democracy without the possibility of choice, meaningless...
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Rich cities and dying company towns
Russia’s unemployment figures look low, but they are rising, and there is a great gulf between the prosperous centre and failing regions.A foreigner coming to Moscow or St Petersburg as a tourist or on...
View ArticleThe Snowden Files: so much more than state surveillance
A new book on 'the most spectacular intelligence breach ever' falls short of interrogating what the twenty first century military industrial complex is doing to our societies, to our politics and to...
View ArticleTowards a lasting peace: reforming drug policy in Colombia
A group of experts offer eleven recommendations Colombian and FARC negotiators can use to address and reform drug policy alongside on-going negotiations for a lasting peace. Español. Colombia is one...
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What is Fethullah Gülen’s real mission?
To what extent, wittingly or otherwise, is the leader of Hizmet – a worldwide religious, social, and political movement – part of a mechanism aimed at destabilizing and perhaps overthrowing Recep...
View ArticleThe wild west of surveillance
Here we have an anatomy of a surveillance world that grows more, not less, powerful and full of itself with every passing moment and technological advance, a national security world whose global...
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Saving Europe: reformulating the rules
A Europe of welfare states, relatively free and democratic, with social provisions that allow for more emancipation and personal sovereignty: this must be saved, through a citizens’ pact to strive for...
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Connecting Myanmar: telecom reform and political transition
Myanmar is building its telecommunications infrastructure, involving international mobile companies and complex regulatory reform: an unprecedented process requiring corporate social responsibility...
View ArticleSmall earthquake in Britain - devastates the economy
The 50p tax rate would apparently have minimal impact but also be devastating to the UK economy. It's worth recalling similar arguments made against the 1981 proposal for a maximum salary cap of four...
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Torture – Strasbourg upholds immunity of state officials
The British and European courts have granted Saudi state officials who tortured British citizens immunity from prosecution. It's time to change the law so this can't happen again.The European Court of...
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