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Best of Russia: going the right way?
The annual Best of Russia photography exhibition has opened in Moscow’s Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art. Reviewing the past five years of images, Jeremy Noble was struck by how explicitly the...
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Foreign ownership of British assets has damaged our economy
Unlike any other developed nation the UK has sold off considerable amounts of its major industries and assets to overseas owners. This has weakened democratic control of industry, inflated our exchange...
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When is "saving marriage" not a conservative program?
A reading of Zola's Germinal coincides with the debate on marriage to suggest a radical defence of the institutionWhen “Saving marriage” is not a conservative mission When David Cameron argued that gay...
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The most Catholic country in Europe? Croatia and the Catholic church
2013 is set to be an important year for both the Catholic Church, which elects a new pope, and Croatia, which will become the 28th member of the EU. These two entities share a long history, with the...
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The youth of Shahbagh: A Bengali spring?
Dhaka has been witnessing a youth uprising against Islamism in Bangladesh. The UK is also witnessing daily events in solidarity with demands to end to Islamist politics, and punishment for those...
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The Scotland of the Democratic Future: some tentative lessons from Chile
Scotland's experience cannot be compared to a brutal dictatorship, yet there are parallels to be drawn between the debate over the coming independence referendum and the anti-Pinochet campaign as...
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Britain and Romania: a short history of a troubled romance
Romania is a country of attraction and danger for the British. Today it's contaminated slaughterhouses and the threat of a new influx of immigrants. But this discourse plays into a historical narrative...
View ArticleReconsidering the failure of the anti-Iraq war march
Ten years on from the largest public demonstration in British history, NLP’s Alex Doherty spoke to Ian Sinclair, author of the new book The march that shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February...
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Fighting for the high ground
While the Baha Mousa inquiry "may have shone a torch into a dark corner", what is now before the court is more like "a stadium in which we will switch on the floodlights".It is ten years since so many...
View ArticleTowards Partisan Politics: #Shahbag and the politics of revenge
Protests at Shahbag that call for the death penalty for Abdul Quader Mollah have been hailed as a move beyond 'partisan politics' in the spirit of the Arab Spring. Clear government backing puts this,...
View ArticleObama's liberal vision
At question is the basic American dream: the assumption that a decent life can be earned by hard work.The president certainly can deliver a speech. Last night, he showed he could do a Clinton one...
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An Italian election race between bank scandals and ambitious pledges
If they are anything like what has happened so far, we can expect the last two weeks before the Italian elections to be eventful, and full of surprises.Former Italian PM and current candidate Silvio...
View ArticleWe need to talk about the 'Middle'
Addressing the problem of middle Britain today will prove key to the future of the country and its politics. The Labour party has begun to recognise this, but what path will it take?The fight for the...
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Russian NGOs: the funding realities
Continuing oDRussia's debate on the future for Russian NGO funding, now a view from the coal face. Pavel Chikov is chair of one of the country's most respected NGOs: he argues that foundation grants...
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The democratic game – when it gets serious
In a remarkable article, Benjamin Ward uses his analysis of intolerance in Europe to suggest solutions, a line many are still wary of crossing. This is, however, where we start to disagree.Protesters...
View ArticleTogo: a country of strangers?
Making peace in Togo is not a numbers game. Nor is it about searching to find out who was wrong in the past. As the next election approaches it is time to recreate our country’s history and invest in...
View Article"Traditonal Values" vs Human Rights at the UN
A dangerous process is taking place in the UN system that threatens the universality of human rights by seeking to make them contingent on subjective ‘traditional values’ such as ‘responsible...
View ArticleHas Turkey reached a dead-end in Syria?
A bomb blast in Cilvegozu confirmed that free passage for arms and fighters across the Syrian border is creating complex spillovers in Turkey. The administration's humanitarian stance has been...
View ArticleThe lost compassion of nursing? Making sense of the Francis report
The failures uncovered by the Francis report go far beyond the compassion of individual nurses and managers, they are a clear warning sign on the dangers of turning a public health service into a...
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Beyond individual stories: women have moved mountains
Among all the social movements of the past century, the struggle for women’s rights and gender equality has been the most transformative in terms of the deep tectonic shifts it has created in the...
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