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In Russia, paedophilia hysteria is a national cause
Not a day goes by without another paedophile scare in the Russian press and TV, but everyone is looking in the wrong direction. In 2012, a special police unit was set up in Russia to combat sexual...
View ArticleWhy does Britain need to feel special?
The world is getting restless with some states' attachment to nuclear weapons. So why is Britain going out of its way to deepen its nuclear relationship with the United States? The small community of...
View ArticleNew inquiry - are "community rights" actually working?
The right to very little at all: House of Commons select committee launches an inquiry into the new ‘community rights’.The Localism Act 2011 offers communities a set of new ‘rights’. They may now...
View ArticleThe joined-up policies of the Green Party
Is it any wonder that much of the mainstream media and political elite are attempting to exclude the Green Party from the television election debates?With tworecent national polls on voting intentions...
View ArticleVideo: power in Britain - Adam Ramsay speaks at Occupy Democracy
OurKingdom's co-editor Adam Ramsay talks to Occupy Democracy last week about power in Britain and how to challenge it. I was asked to speak at the Occupy Democracy protest in Parliament Square in...
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From Occupy Democracy to One Nation Labour: real democracy now?
The left's demands may be becoming somewhat repetitive and yet look no closer to being realised. Surely the real question is, under what social and constitutional conditions could those demands be met?...
View Article'It's ok to live in poverty, it's ok to be hungry'
Shocking new statistics reveal the penury and despair the UK government is forcing upon asylum seekers. This week's news that the UK government is presiding over a backlog of 29,000 asylum cases would...
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Is justice blind in Egypt?
Yara Sallam might be just one more name to add to the list of people wronged by the Egyptian justice system. But more importantly, she is one more name temporarily taken off an ever shrinking list of...
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The party rules
What lies behind the Chinese Communist Party elite’s foregrounding of the ‘rule of law’? With China's declining economic growth rate and widening income inequality, the basic rationale at the heart of...
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What do the Brazilians want: from the 2013 protests to the 2014 elections
Nothing more reasonable than a president being reelected, especially when she has managed to keep the unemployment rates at a historic low. But only if you ignore recent history.It is safe to say that...
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US Republicans are not alone: fear and hatred on the campaign trail
The blame game allows these commonly quite similar parties in practice to distinguish themselves from each other in rhetoric.The Clintons. Flickr/Central Intelligence Agency. Public domain.Bill Clinton...
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There’s no such thing as a liberal anti-racist
The liberal demand to depoliticise culture, to abandon “dangerous ideas”, is highly political and leads liberals to consider all manner of coercive initiatives to engineer the liberal subjects they...
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A mother never forgets
Last month marked the five hundredth demonstration of the Saturday Mothers. The weekly protests staged by these mothers stand as a powerful reminder of Turkey’s ‘disappeared’.Hanim Tosun holds a...
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Facing up to the capitalist within
It’s easy to blame the economic system for causing social and environmental problems, but what is that system built on? Isn’t it us?“Prayers on deck, slaves under the deck—John Newton’s Christian slave...
View ArticleGreater Manchester: Gideon knows best
The people of Manchester voted against a mayor only two years ago. Now, George Osborne has over-ruled them. Two years ago, the people of Manchester voted against an elected mayor. But today, George...
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Football and its role in unifying the European public space
How has football changed Europe and helped unify the continent? An interview with Pascal Boniface.The opening ceremony of Euro 2012, which was jointly held in Poland and Ukraine. Wikimedia. Public...
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A Mayor for Greater Bristol?
Should Greater Britsol have a Mayor?Clifton Suspension Bridge/WikimediaSo, the Bristol Post have launched their Make Bristol Greater campaign, aimed at raising the debate about what the Bristol city...
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Putin's new foreign policy rulebook
Putin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules. As the Ukraine crisis drags on and as the transformative effects of Crimea's annexation...
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This week's window on the Middle East - November 3, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: A Syrian fearing exile and return. A Syrian fearing exile and...
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A new agenda for welfare
Britain needs a social security system based on solidarity, risk sharing and collective action.wikimediaThrough our research on a new social settlement, NEF proposes an agenda for the future of the...
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