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Good guys and bad guys: The Battle of Algiers and The Dark Knight Rises
The ‘chaos and fear’ inspired by The Battle of Algiers is certainly there, enhanced by another parallel between the two films – the location from which the uprising bursts forth. More than four decades...
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Genesis of a film: the Battle of Algiers
A 2006 documentary by Yves Boisset uses uncredited extracts from the film, mixed in with actual news reels, without stating that the film was made nine years after the events which it relates to....
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Chums?
Given a choice, most people prefer a decent life to national or ethnic purity. Given a choice, most people like to get on with their neighbours, to fit in with their communities, to carry on with the...
View ArticleTurkey, the end of Islamism with a human face
Turkey's AKP government has over a decade promised a new model of governance: progressive and reformist, Islamist and democratic. But a series of developments, including the expanding power of prime...
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Remembering what, exactly? Reflections on Britain’s Bomber Command Memorial
Since the Bomber Command mermorial was unveiled to commemorate the lives lost by aircrew during the Second World War, the tributes left at its feet have questioned its message of a necessary national...
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Multiculturalism and the nation
The proclaimed ‘failure’ of multiculturalism suggests the breakdown of a single process of integration. In fact, it is the term's capacity to overcome precisely this logic that reveals its continuing...
View ArticleChances for Peace, the second decade
The world faces immense and unavoidable security, climate and economic tests. In the effort to meet them, the second decade of the 21st century is crucial. The next thirty years, until the mid-2040s,...
View ArticleThe freedom fallacy
It's time we threw out our notion of freedom as the mere absence of duress. A cursory look at the life of a cafe worker will tell you why.Despite the rise in employment, British workers are suffering...
View ArticleMedia corporations: too big to fail?
As with the banking system, Britain needs to shake up the way its media works as a whole: nothing less can tackle the unaccountable power of the industry giants.The news that Swiss bank UBS has been...
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Fate of the First Born? English nationalism and Euroscepticism
One of the most respected contemporary voices on nationalism gives his take on an important new book exploring the relationship between England and Europe. English Nationalism and Euroscepticism:...
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Is Hungarian national heritage doomed?
Amid nationalist resurgence and severe recession in Hungary, many observers fear that the reforms undertaken by Viktor Orban's government in the cultural sector will severely jeopardize the country's...
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Is Greece a racist state?
Mainstream politicians have been playing a dangerous game. It remains unclear to what extent these tactics represent a conscious attempt to distract those suffering most as a result of the longterm...
View ArticleBreaking the vicious circle - reconciliation in OSCE areas
Work must be done to overcome divides even many decades after official agreements to end violence have been signed. But the process is neither simple nor direct, with social media as easily a tool for...
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The Cairo Gang, the Force Research Unit and ... Rupert Murdoch
The story of the FRU must be one of the most sordid in British Intelligence. It reveals a deep gulf in Northern Ireland's peace process: Britain's willingness to be held accountable.It has to be one of...
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What is behind the mask of revolution? Global separatism in the Russian context
Across the world, a youthful flame of revolution has engulfed leaders, governments and the very notion of modern Westphalian order. In an extended essay, Daniil Kotsyubinsky wonders if the logical next...
View ArticleLiving with murder
Following the Sandy Hook shooting, our Sunday Comics author remembers how his family were the victims of random gun violence and calls for the guns, the NRA lobbyists and the politicans who listen to...
View ArticleUK’s persecution of kidney transplant patient Roseline goes on and on
Actor Colin Firth condemns Home Secretary's challenge to court judgment allowing transplant patient's right to life.Home Secretary Theresa May has challenged last month’s court judgement that overruled...
View ArticleThe swing of the democratic pendulum is slow and long
We haven’t yet figured out how to replace political parties with some other vehicle for democratic participation.There’s been a lot of fairly superficial reporting of late about “anti-democratic”...
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Russia and the West need to rediscover each other in 2013
A year is a very long time in politics. Over the past year Russia’s relations with the West have deteriorated, not helped by events in Syria and the Magnitsky Act. A new beginning and a desire to...
View ArticleThe new Egyptian constitution: an initial assessment of its merits and flaws
Egypt cannot be described as a religious state, given that political power remains firmly in the hands of civilians, but religion will now play a real role in inspiring how the state is to function....
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