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A cockroach in the baby’s bottle: asylum-seeker housing by security giant G4S
Angela and her baby are among thousands of vulnerable people being forcibly re-housed as the UK government converts asylum-seeker housing into a profitable business. On 16 November, Angela (not her...
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Is Erasmus Europe's success story?
In our new 'Eminent Europeans' series, we ask the continent's share of intellectuals - philosophers, artists or scientists - to share their vision of Europe. In the first article, Jan Truszczyński, the...
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The root cause of green on blue attacks
The draw down of international troops in Afghanistan was predicated on ISAF building a relationship with Afghan forces to 'hand over' security. 'Green on blue attacks' signal an opposite trend, and one...
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After the elections, an alarming audit of Romanian democracy
A motley alliance of socialists, liberals and conservatives won the 9 December Romanian parliamentary elections. What they clearly share is profound dislike for the country's once-powerful president,...
View ArticleA British Bill of Rights? Report shows none is needed
Today's report on replacing the Human Rights Act with a bill of rights reveals the confused and flawed arguments at the root of the proposition.The Commission on a Bill of Rights has today produced a...
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The December elections in Romania
The 9 December elections concluded a rough year for Romanian politics. Unfortunately, there is no sign of more serene times ahead.Impending storm on the Romanian parliament? Shutterstock/Crydo. All...
View ArticleThree reasons why I'm changing my mind about a British Bill of Rights
A Commission has just reported in whether Britain needs its own Bill of Rights instead of relying on the European Convention. It divided as a Conservative majority says it does. They convinced Stuart...
View ArticleThe humanitarian crisis in Syria, everyone is responsible
Lack of cooperation on all sides has left the doors open to the most extremist financiers from the Arab Gulf countries to force their own agendas on the brigades they are financing, agendas that have...
View ArticleThe unmaking of Syria: beneath the fog
One can no longer say that Syria is a moderate, pragmatic, stabilizing and secular regional centre keeping extremism at bay - a natural function of its geography, relatively diverse ethno-sectarian...
View ArticleCommiserator in Chief: Obama delivers more heartfelt words, and nothing concrete
Rhetoric will cover the tracks of their cupidity, but losing an election is hard to hide.So much for the radicalized Obama who liberals fantasized about before the election. As that comical fiction had...
View ArticleTribes and tribalism in the Syrian revolution
Most of the research conducted so far into the Syrian uprising is focused on the sectarian element of the conflict, forgetting that there is a tribal dimension to the conflict as well.On 18 July 2012,...
View ArticleAusterity and domestic violence: mapping the damage
The two years since austerity began have taken their toll on domestic violence provisions, in a fracturing that cuts across institutions, sectors and lives in the UKOver the last two years, the...
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There is no such thing as ‘bad blood’
I’ve never met either of my parents and I don’t know my father’s name. She was a Catholic from over the border he was a Protestant from Belfast and they chose to give me up for adoption in Manchester...
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The year of cataclysm for the NHS
It has been a big year for the English health service, for the wrong reasons. With so much happening so fast, Alex Nunns of the NHS Support Federation pulls together the strands to explain what is...
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A terrible kind of tiredness. A report from a rough sleeper in Exeter.
One of OurKingdom’s occasional first-person pieces illuminating lives often overlooked by mainstream media. This is a report from 'Bernard' to St Petrock’s, an Exeter-based charity helping people who...
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Among the convicts: Russian nurses on life in the gulag
In another report from her recent visit to the Vyatlag prison complex in central Russia, Ekaterina Loushnilova is entertained by some of the camp's nurses. They share with her not only cranberry...
View ArticleQatar intervening in northern Mali?
If the presence of Qatar in Mali is confirmed, it is difficult to establish how the emirate is trying to change the political and strategicsituation. However,despite the lack of proof of Qatari...
View ArticleLis Howell speaks out on the BBC
OurKingdom contributor Lis Howell speaks out on making the BBC accountable as the men around her say all it needs is better leadership.Lis Howell is rocking the airwaves. She is making some brilliant...
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Bliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
Dispassionate analysis of social and political problems is what is needed to build a better society. Thirty Moroccan youth activists seize the chance, in the process moving the author, who meanwhile...
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Pedestrian crossings; contemporary judicial spectacle
Two types of spectacle – procession and tableau vivant – in the Judges Service at London’s Westminster Abbey, allow us to explore a ‘live’ performance of judicial authority outside the usual stage...
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