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Rising suicides and assaults, more punitive regimes, less rehabilitation. No...
The UK government must act swiftly to reverse a steep and dangerous decline.Main gate to the HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs in spring 2013 (image: Chmee2)One young prisoner told the Prison Reform Trust’s...
View Article‘Foreign criminals’ – questioning the consensus
It's taken as a given that foreign criminals should be deported. But is it really sensible or justified?‘Foreign criminals’ are once again in the spotlight, with both David Cameron and Theresa May...
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What Elinor Ostrum taught: democratic control is not only possible, it's normal
The only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics showed that democratic management of commons isn't just possible, but normal.Elinor Ostrum/WikimediaThe market fundamentalism of Hayek seems to...
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Gun has no trigger
The tactics of contemporary UK trades unions are utterly failing.A strike rally in Oxford/wikimediaI’m sitting in a bar with four local government workers. I’m sitting in a community centre meeting...
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Bliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The author considers the wave of gory Isis propaganda and the violent wielding of an old tool with new vectors, a social media Tamburlaine; and remembers the Moroccans who served in the World...
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For jobs and freedom, 50 years on: the struggle for racial equality in the...
As part of our audit of democracy in America in the run-up to the US mid-term elections, a survey of the public discussion of race in the Ferguson era that warns of the danger of rolling back years of...
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Open budgets, open politics?
Budget transparency has the potential to make governments more accountable, but research shows that it occurs most often where it is least needed. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on...
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Human trafficking: a parasite of prohibitionism?
Is human trafficking an unintended consequence every time a sector of commerce is zoned illicit by lawmakers as a way of policing morality? What are the links between human trafficking and the wars on...
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Mare Nostrum and migrant deaths: the humanitarian paradox at Europe’s frontiers
An industry has grown up around migratory routes in which care and control functions alternately clash and merge with each other. Understanding the humanitarian-policing nexus at play is key to move...
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United Arab Emirates: public affluence, private abuse
Abu Dhabi can present a glitzy, oil-fuelled image to the world. But many female migrant domestic workers in the UAE face maltreatment in the privacy of their employer’s home.Road to riches? The Garhoud...
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Frozen progress: beyond the egg-freezing debate
Behind the headlines of Silicon Valley companies offering female employees the chance to freeze their eggs lie more fundamental unresolved questions of gender in the workplace – and the role of work in...
View ArticleDon't write off Healthcare Statements, says Jesse Norman MP
Jesse Norman MP defends his proposal to send patients statements of how much they cost the NHS, responding to criticism published yesterday on OurNHS by Hackney GP Dr Jonathan Tomlinson.It takes all...
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16 thoughts on a dramatic Scottish poll
A poll today in Scotland gives the SNP 54 MPs to Scottish Labour's 4. Here are 16 immediate thoughts.Pie chart by STVA Westminster election poll for STV today gives the SNP a huge lead over Labour....
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What does Russia really want with Abkhazia?
Will the new treaty being discussed between Abkhazia and Russia provide a blueprint for cooperation or something more like annexation? Talks about a new treaty between Russia and Abkhazia have been...
View ArticleThe missing women of Afghanistan
After 13 years of war, 'democracy' is based on the rule of men, not law. On September 29th, power in Afghanistan changed hands for the first time in 13 years. At the Arg, the presidential palace in...
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Should Serbia vs Albania have gone ahead in the first place?
Were UEFA being dangerously naive when they allowed Serbia and Albania to be drawn into the same qualifying group?An Albanian player is attacked by a Serbian fan during the abandoned football match on...
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One step forward, two back? Dalit women’s rights under economic globalisation
The economic reforms begun in India in 1991 were couched in the language of ‘modernisation’, yet they have done little to challenge the caste and gender discrimination faced by Dalit women - in some...
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Scottish Labour: the never-ending soap opera that matters
The crisis in Scottish Labour has been long in the making, and needs to address its root.Scottish Labour loves talking about itself. The evidence for this is everywhere in the last few days, in print...
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Lea's story: my days as a mad girl
In immaculate clinics people are segregated, held down, drugged, often with no other purpose than to control them and get them out of the way. Content warning: eating disorders, self harm, medical...
View ArticleJoin politics to change politics - thoughts on the upcoming Romanian election
In the run-up to the next presidential elections in a country where politics has, for so long, been riddled with nepotism, corruption and a lack of sense of civic duty - you have to ask, is anything...
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