Tax avoidance: indignation only gets us so far...
There has been a huge shift in public opinion in the UK on big corporations and rich individuals avoiding tax. How best to build on this?Margaret Hodge MP, chair of parliament’s Public Accounts...
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Lessons from the periphery
Democratising the EU is not about Europhilia or Euroscepticism. In modern society, power and democratic accountability go hand in hand. European leaders should draw inspiration from the Union's...
View ArticleThe EU's Nobel Peace Prize
On Monday 10th December 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. For better or worse, the prize focuses attention on an important question: does Europe need peacebuilding?That the EU will...
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Talking to the other side: humanitarian engagement with the Taliban in...
Aid agency engagement with the Taliban will be critical to ensuring they can still operate after 2014. Research published by ODI explores Taliban attitudes toward aid work and the approaches used by...
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'Another world is possible': nationhood and global justice
Globalisation has depended upon a unitary idea of progress. Now it's time to look again at national space and its role in formulating a democratic world interest. The first piece in the new OurKingdom...
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Melting pot Britain
As the 2011 UK census shows, an ever larger number of Britons are from mixed race backgrounds. So Jessica Ennis was not just the face of the London Olympics this summer; she could stake a fair claim to...
View ArticleDiary of a constitutional crisis
Just over a week before my scheduled arrival in Cairo to research the constitution-drafting process, President Morsi triggered perhaps the most significant crisis since the fall of Mubarak. When I...
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Away from prison: the distance travelled
The British government's new policy of cutting re-offending rates by introducing a crude payment-by-results won't work. There should be many markers of success. Rahila Gupta watched Jen Joseph and...
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Making finance work for women
Just as it is not an inherent feature of the financial system to work against society, it need not be the case that it discriminates against women. A flourishing group of financial cooperatives and...
View ArticleDon’t blame the bankers or politicians. Blame your unemployed neighbours
Britain’s Coalition Government has announced further cuts to benefits and social services. But while it demonises those out of work, where is its strategy for jobs? For a government that claims to...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s missiles: peepholes into alien territory
It is here in South Korea where you will find the most prevalent sense of bitterness and anger towards the belligerent communist state.The controversy that surrounded the highly secretive launch of...
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Re-birth of the nation? A new series challenging all ‘global citizens’
The ‘death of the nation’ is a fallacy. As austerity erodes national sovereignty, the logic of globalization is experiencing a backlash, with new publics being forged and old identities renewed. Today...
View ArticleInspectors condemn UK’s detention of torture survivors and victims of...
The UK immigration authorities routinely detain people who should not be detained, and ignore or dismiss medical evidence of torture. A joint report today from the Chief Inspector of the UK Border...
View ArticleDrug Policy Alliance's Top Stories of 2012
Some of top stories of 2012 that capture the momentum gained in this extraordinary year of change, which promise to present an exit strategy to the disastrous war on drugs.This year will go down in...
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Talking point: the logic of Russian foreign policy
What factors drive foreign policy in Russia? Who drives it? And in whose interests - the elites or ordinary people? Marie Mendras and Fyodor Lukyanov join oDRussia editor Oliver Carroll for a debate in...
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Bliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door: an elephant in the room
The effects of learning Arabic from two different angles – as a cause of illiteracy in Morocco, and a spurned langue d’immigration in France – prompting reflections on what constitutes a ‘modern...
View ArticleLessons from Egypt and Tunisia
The lessons learned from Egypt and Tunisia are that the only solution for the successful handling of transitions, away from the reproduction of authoritarian models – even those with good intentions –...
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Soldiers
The British government has shamelessly covered its tracks in relation to abuse of its authority in Ireland, and continues to do so. It is time to talk about what happened to us all during those long,...
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Bulgarian national identity in an era of European integration
Almost six years after its accession to the European Union, Bulgaria is confronted with the ghosts of a nationalist past. Barriers to Europeanism, however, are weaker than ever.Is Bulgaria's door open...
View ArticleSyria, endgame and blowback
Syria's conflict is approaching a decisive phase, and the United States is making intense efforts to influence the shape of a post-Assad regime. Here, the prominence of Islamist groups among the rebels...
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