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Burning cars in the banlieues as acts of citizenship
The worlds of concrete, the car and masculinity are ways to delve into acts in which have only so far attracted attention for their violence and destructive capability. Burning cars and youth rioting...
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Vyatlag: the Gulag then and now
Many of the Soviet Gulag camps are now deserted, but Vyatlag is still in operation, though now most of the prisoners are there for criminal rather than political offences. But as Ekaterina Loushnikova...
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Art and Property Now: Room 5, Redrawing the Maps
Art and Property Now is an exhibition exploring John Berger’s life as storyteller, artist and critic. Visit the Inigo Rooms, Somerset House, London, until November 10, 2012. We have celebrated Berger’s...
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Labour's drift to isolationism in Europe
Labour's opportunistic stance on increasing the EU budget reflects wider problems on the British left with regard to Europe. However tainted with neoliberal doctrine, the EU remains our greatest hope...
View ArticleA response to my critics on child benefit
A piece on the proposed limits to child benefit prompted a vigorous comment thread. Its author responds. I recently caught up with The Flaw, a vivid documentary on the financial crash shown on Channel...
View ArticleGetting the US elections out of proportion
On the eve of the US elections the Arab media has been full of analyses and forecasts about the consequences of the results and their potential impact on the turbulent Middle Eastern area with its...
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The Sicilian blow to Italian politics
Nearly 20 percent of Sicily’s electorate voted for Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S) – an alternative “clean hands” party that has recently gained momentum in Italian politics. Their candidate,...
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Rula Quawas – Jordanian pioneer
The fact that such a harmless video could cause such ramifications is disappointing. About a month ago, Rula Quawas, former Dean of the faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Jordan was...
View ArticleBulgaria's terror attack: a democratic test
The response by Bulgaria's authorities to the mid-summer killing of Israeli tourists reflects the country's lack of experience of international terrorism, as well as specific internal democratic...
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From the people to the people, a new constitution
What the future holds in store and what will be the fate of the bill for a new constitution is hard to say at this point in time. But what is evident is that the battle of “who owns Iceland” is being...
View ArticleEducation in Chad: in a state of decline
This year in Chad only 9% of students passed their high school leaving exams. Reorganising these exams is not the solution. We need to re-examine the whole education system, encouraging all those...
View ArticleLe système éducatif tchadien en pleine décadence
91% de recalés à l’examen du baccalauréat 2012 au Tchad pour seulement 9% d’admis. Réorganiser le baccalauréat n’est pas la solution. Il faut revoir le système éducatif et sensibiliser les différents...
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Speak clearly and drive a big motorbike - on the road to equality in Danish...
Politics will always be a man’s world if you listen to the men, says Danish MP Liselott Blixt. She told her own story about why she entered politics and getting elected at an international...
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Strengthening democracy: tackling the over-representation of men
Democracy can only win the global struggle for ascendancy if women rise too. Marion Bowman reports on a London conference on gender and politics attended by politicians – mainly women - from around the...
View ArticleLet the public take over the BBC
Tessa Jowell MP who was Culture Secretary in the Blair government when she secured the BBC's future calls for it to become a mutual owned by the public who can then elect the Trust that regulates it....
View ArticleCorrupt and ‘reckless’ Kellogg Brown & Root still in the running for UK...
Ahead of Police & Crime Commissioner elections in the UK, a negligence verdict in Oregon intensifies pressure to keep tainted contractor KBR out of UK policing.Kellogg Brown & Root, the...
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Someone else? The latest twist in Russian politics
The Russian Defence Minister was recently sacked, ostensibly for corruption. The apparent weakening of the Putin myth and resulting unease inside the Kremlin must lead to a search for a new leader....
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What to expect from the Czech presidential election
For the first time in their history, Czech citizens will directly elect their president next year, to replace the notoriously Eurosceptic incumbent Vaclav Klaus. The stakes are high in this election,...
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Russian military reform and Shoigu’s poisoned chalice
On 6 November, the Russian top brass’s dream came true: President Putin dismissed Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, whose ongoing and fundamental reform of the Military has perhaps been the only real...
View ArticleSyria, the activists grow up
The course of Syria's revolution since its idealistic early days has been a painful learning experience for many young activists, says Malik al-Abdeh.The early days of Syria's uprising in spring 2011...
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