The underclass of carers: grandparents in the UK
Hundreds of thousands of children in the UK are brought up by family members who are not their parents. These ‘kinship carers’ - overwhelmingly women - save the taxpayers billions, but with little...
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Women Together in the darkest days of the 'Troubles'
Women Together brought Catholic and Protestant women into talks and cooperation in the 1970s, standing in solidarity against the government and paramilitary groups to help end the violence in Northern...
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Women in Northern Ireland should be leading peacebuilders again
Women Together played a crucial role in the peace process. As violence and tension mount again, Anne Carr argues that women must be leading peacebuilders, driving a Civic Forum to be a central voice...
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Rape, marriage, and rights
While the proliferation of domestic violence legislation worldwide is a positive and much-needed development, the explicit criminalisation of marital rape needs to be central to these legal reform...
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Euro elections 2014: You Tell Us bloggers discuss
Young bloggers from across the EU discuss the euro elections as seen from their countries. See also, Whatever happened to the European elections debate?European elections, European democracy?The...
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Social democracy in Norway’s culture wars
An exploration of the various elements of Norwegian culture that have over time fostered a deep-rooted conspiratorial populism, challenging the traditional picture of Norway as a consensual social...
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Armenia and the EEU: the point of no return for Yerevan
Early last year Armenia entered into accession talks with the Russian-led Customs Union – a precursor to the EEU. But does this path hold the key to greater economic prosperity for Yerevan or is it...
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Mass surveillance: the Dutch state of denial
With tacit support from the European Commission, the Dutch government has carefully evaded addressing concerns over mass state surveillance.Flickr/zanten.net. Some rights reserved.As in many countries,...
View ArticleA prize for the future of Iran: the Mothers of Khavaran and the quest for a...
After more than quarter of a century of struggle to raise awareness about the secret execution of their loved ones, Mothers of Khavaran, a grassroots network of thousands of survivors in Iran, receive...
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Critical perspectives on crisis and migration
Refined narratives on crisis and migration help to enlighten and clarify perspectives on mobility, all too necessary in a world ridden with conflict. Nonetheless, policy inertia, over-simplification...
View ArticleAlgeria and Nigeria: sharing the deadweight of human mindlessness
Wole Soyinka believed that one of the best ways to comprehend the kind of horror that is happening in Nigeria is to remember the experience of other nations in the region confronted with jihadist...
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Kazakh banking – devaluation, consolidation and bad loans
Kazakh banking is in a state of disarray, as banks assimilate the consequences of a recent 20% devaluation of the tenge. But there is also consolidation taking place, adding to the flux; and those bad...
View ArticleThe SWISH Report (24)
What do events in Syria-Iraq, Egypt, Somalia-Kenya and Nigeria reveal about al-Qaida's condition? The movement has again commissioned advice from its preferred management consultancy, whose unrivalled...
View ArticleThe Great War and Iraq: Britain’s poisonous legacy
The little-known involvement of British imperial forces in creating and controlling the state of Iraq in the wake of the first world war is a key source of the country's later disasters, says Ian...
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“… a neglected variable: Females”
As Jill Abramson leaves the New York Times, our Sunday Comics author examines the framing of the story - and some new scientific research into the Y chromosome - in the US mediaWhat a day was Thursday,...
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Almighty
This may be sheer populism. However, it is also the kind of populism that brings millions to the election rallies cheering with joy. Having taken Turkey out of economic crisis once, the AKP is seen as...
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Modi-fied India's growth-friendly sectarianism
A secular right-wing and a growth-friendly communalism will be the new name for Hindutva's sectarian extremism.Narendra Modi. Flickr/World Economic Forum. Some rights reserved.India has now got itself...
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Against poverty and nuclear weapons. For kindness and an independent Scotland
Independence could liberate Scotland to lead change that benefits all who live in these islands.Molly Harvey under arrest at Faslane Naval Base. Argyll & Bute, Scotland, February 2001For all of our...
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Barnardo's and G4S, partners in the child detention business
Four years ago the coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes. But they didn't. Instead, the UK's biggest children's charity and security giant G4S created a prettier...
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Why we can’t leave the power to create money in the hands of banks or regulators
We cannot rely on failed regulators to prevent banks from abusing the power to create money, as Ann Pettifor suggests. Flickr/Doug88888If you or I printed our own money at home, we'd find the police...
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