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Striking behaviour: Chinese workers discover a weapon against labour-market...
In theory, workers in China are promised security through official trade union representation and the rule of the Communist Party. In practice, confronted with the endless churning of a globalised...
View ArticleTaiwan’s students are resisting a Hong Kong-style future
Hong Kong has long been seen as the testing ground for peaceful absorption of a democratic territory into the People’s Republic of China.Student-led protesters in Taipei yesterday stormed the Executive...
View ArticleAnbar – thorn in Maliki’s side
Anbar province has emerged as the fulcrum of a rising Sunni resistance against Iraq’s Shi’a controlled government and it could have a major impact on the formation of the next government.The ongoing...
View ArticleObama and Iraq: the myth of abandonment
John McCain and others continue to blame the escalation of tension and sectarian violence in Iraq on Obama’s 'abandonment' of the country in 2011, but the foundations for the violence were laid years...
View ArticleLa Serenissima
What Europe needs is a re-engagement of her citizens in the integration project: Europe needs to start making Europeans again.The citizens of the Italian region of Veneto voted overwhelmingly for...
View ArticleThe Persian Gulf: implications of the Saudi-Qatari dispute
The Saudi strategy of offering military support to the US while exporting Muslim militancy and portraying itself as the protector of the two holiest sites in the Islamic world has backfired for both...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2014: political transition
As Afghanistan heads for presidential elections on April 5, the country is going through one of the most critical periods in its post-Taleban history: the transition (Inteqal). The term Inteqal is used...
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Venezuela: taking the counter- out of revolution
Venezuela is politically polarised and so is much of the coverage of it. But just as the violence is now kaleidoscopic the international response must become more complex.Fractured society, fractal...
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Egypt: A Space That Isn't Our Own
Last month a young woman was mob attacked on Cairo University campus. Socially and culturally constructed circles that control our lives seem to be tightening at a time when individuals are trying...
View ArticleRefugee women in the UK: Pushing a stone into the sea
From personal experience I know that arrival in the UK for asylum seekers does not signal safety, but reform is a ‘chaser game’: refugee women are pressuring the Home Office to improve decision making...
View ArticleIntroducing Tony Hall’s cunning plan: The BB(&A)C
Tony Hall’s scheme for the BBC’s future has been widely disdained as a willful desire to put the clock back to the days of ‘Auntie’ BBC, but Brian Winston argues it is more like a return to the...
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Who is behind Reform's call for NHS charges?
The private health insurance industry has been trying to get think tanks to help it make money in Britain for the last 10 years. Is today's report by Reform calling for NHS charges the result?People in...
View ArticleSearching for politics in Europe
We are in a state of apathy because we no longer know where the 'right' place for politics is. Read more from our You Tell Us bloggers on the topic of apathy in Europe.What is politics? It essentially...
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When charity should begin at home
Civil society development in Russia has been hampered by restrictive laws and apathy or suspicion on the part of the public. What is needed so it can start again? Salzburg Global Seminar is considering...
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Death at Yarl’s Wood: Women in mourning, women in fear
On Sunday morning a 40 year old woman died at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire, England. Jennifer Allsopp spoke, via telephone, to a woman in Yarl’s Wood who knew her.Yarl's...
View ArticleWe don't talk about politics in Poland
Today there is a whole generation of people who don’t remember communism. And these people don’t vote either. Read more from our You Tell Us bloggers on the topic of apathy in Europe.In preparing to...
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Hard lives: migrant children and the British state
An impassioned campaign to prevent Yashika Bageerathi's deportation has put Home Office treatment of children in the spotlight.This is a stressful time of year for many families with teenagers, as...
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Deaths in detention, and Britain's legal duties towards vulnerable detainees
Detention centre doctors are obliged to report cases where a detained person's health is likely to be damaged by detention. This safeguard is too often ignored or manipulated.Alois Dvorzak and his...
View ArticleObama, Saudi Arabia and “anti-terrorism”
Last week the US president, Barack Obama, visited Saudi Arabia. Fighting extremism, the crisis in Syria, and Iran's nuclear programme would all have been live concerns. Human rights, however, was...
View ArticleAs long as the EU remains mired in its own abstractions, voter apathy will...
The post-war mantra of ‘let’s cooperate rather than invade each other’ has lost its relevance for younger generations. Read more from our You Tell Us bloggers on the topic of apathy in Europe.When...
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