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The infallibility of David? On anti-semitism and criticising Israeli foreign...
Criticising Israeli foreign policy does not constitute anti-semitism. As simple as this statement appears, its reiteration becomes an urgent necessity when faced with renewed debates on anti-Semitism...
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The European elite's politics of fear
Fear mongering about 'anti-European populism' discredits the EU elite’s position on European democracy – it should stop.A World War II propaganda poster (detail). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.Fear...
View ArticleAnother G4S scandal: are the UK's asylum housing subcontractors falling apart?
The sensitive work of housing vulnerable asylum seekers appears to be defeating the world’s biggest security company. A leaked letter from G4S director (a former Rentokil executive) illuminates the...
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Did comic art save Cumbria from the nuclear dump?
Earlier this year, Cumbria county council woke up to the reality behind decades of government propaganda and nuclear industry spin and rejected a plan to bury radioactive waste in England’s Lake...
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New Russian laws: no chance of a drink or a smoke
Throughout Russia’s history its rulers have attempted to curtail the consumption of alcohol and/or tobacco.Gorbachev had little success in the 1980s. New laws being introduced this year will both...
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The humanitarian industry and urban change in Goma
Integrating into the urban landscape, the humanitarian sector has contributed to various processes of transformation in Goma. While creating new opportunities, their presence has reinforced patterns of...
View ArticleIraq: ten years of hubris and incompetence
Many of the problems that afflict Iraqis today are rooted in the rushed and undemocratic constitution of 2005, says Zaid Al-Ali. Ten years after the 2003 war, the Iraqi government credits itself with...
View ArticleIraq, a war foretold
The gap between the invaders' expectations and the reality that emerged in Iraq was immense. But even as the ground war opened on 20 March 2003, there were clear indications of the carnage to come. The...
View ArticleAssez de ces 'sauts de foi' européens
L'avenir de l'Europe ne repose pas sur un marché global auto-destructif, ni sur une Europe allemande rénationalisée. Il nous faut une Europe politique agissant dans l'intérêt commun tant au niveau...
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Radioactive Y-fronts and the limits of Parliamentary scrutiny
This week the nuclear industry and its Westminster friends celebrated the dawning of a new age, as French energy giant EDF won planning consent to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Meanwhile, in...
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Weaponising workfare
Workfare recognises a reality that the TUC and many on the left haven't - our current model of production, from a social perspective, is crumbling. Make workfare a weapon for change. The potential list...
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Aesthetics in cartography: a more democratic access to information?
Can atlases serve to empower those at the bottom of the pyramid, permitting an understanding of historical change, social developments and a more critical awareness of regional, national traditions and...
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The future of Europe: or how to burst the bubbles around our heads?
Choosing a new path for development based upon self-reflection only happens rarely in history. This would be impossible without a fundamental shift in the self-perception of the vast majority of...
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Toxic images or imaging the other
Photo essay: In the aftermath of the Toulouse killings of March 2012, the French state projected a set of 'toxic images' clearly demarcating the republic's enemy in young, muslim men. Click here for...
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Exposing the Big Lie at the heart of this economic catastrophe
Budget week thoughts: The people who got us into this fix are holding the world to ransom by their speculative lunacy and greed. The big brake is not government debt.Whole sections of the 'west' are in...
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Turkey's growing constitutional conundrum
Why does Turkey need a new constitution and what makes it so difficult to draft one?Turkish PM Recep Erdogan gives a speech in Istanbul. Demotix/ Sadik Gulec. All rights reserved.In the run-up to the...
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Abkhazia: recognising the ruins
The frequent conflicts in Abkhazia have devastated the landscape. Tourism could be encouraged by restoring some of the old buildings, now in ruins, but ownership is often unclear, so they remain a...
View ArticleTwo girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter four
Buick trades his guitar for a pair of boots and is on the road again, accomodating the presence of a hard-drinking literary guest as he tries to overcome the loss of Diana. Thinking on his feet helps...
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Will workfare be well paid?
Aaron Peters explains why workfare is here to stay. But what are the limits to its generosity?Aaron Peters has an excellent essay that I highly commed to you. His argument is that "workfare" - the...
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The Cyprus Eurocrisis: the beginning of the end of the Eurozone?
EU accession in 2004 did little if anything to make runaway bankers accountable; on the contrary, the so-called institutional ‘independence’ of the Central Bank making the Governor accountable to the...
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