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Now we're over the final hurdle...
A tale of crossing the finishing line, some more of your comments and another thank you in the last post of the campaign blogWe thought this image would be apt for our final campaign blog. The horse on...
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Britain's Brezhnev-style capitalism
Wander into post-Olympics East London, lift your gaze, and what do you see? The awful warning of late-Soviet homogenisation.Karl Marx believed, optimistically, that capitalism was creating the...
View ArticleTwo Girlfriends, a Buick & a Flamingo - chapter six
In the sixth slice of life from Blue Moons, Texas we learn about a certain Estelle Flamingo and moonlit leap of faith that brought into existence her child, Diana Flatrock, one Fourth of July. Start...
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Socialism in one country... and English football's Premier League
The beautiful game is rotting because of its place in the global economy: meaningful participation and attachment is being commodified, a process which brings great whooshes of cash into football. Can...
View ArticleStateless in the UK: amid the chaos, a groundbreaking step forward
New immigration rules in the UK designed to help stateless people come into force at a time when legal aid has been removed from nearly all immigration cases. How far will those who are stranded in the...
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Making sense of Italy’s Second Republic: when politics become a soap opera
Over the last decades, the Italian media has become a scene for the soap opera of Italian politics. Will Beppe Grillo's recent electoral successes, partly due to his heavy use of social media, put paid...
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Discouraging developments in the German news media market
The German print media is going through a rough phase, with many newspapers closing and journalists laid off as a result of declining revenus. This structural crisis is having a negative effect on the...
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1% Feminism
Since Sheryl Sandberg has taken it upon herself to jump-start the stalled feminist revolution it’s worth taking a look at the brand of feminism she espouses, says Linda Burnham Sandberg’s book, Lean...
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Intimate fusion: media and political power in Silvio Berlusconi's Italy
The common view that Berlusconi's omnipresence in Italy's political life was facilitated by his control of the media is only partially true. Relations between Italian media and politics have, in fact,...
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India's anti-rape movement: redefining solidarity outside the colonial frame
The horrific rape of a student sparked a remarkable movement against sexual violence in India which has forced the government to change the laws on gender violence. While the struggle continues, a new...
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openDemocracy writer longlisted for Orwell Prize
Clare Sambrook, one of OurKingdom’s co-editors, is among 14 nominees for the UK’s leading prize for political journalism.Image: George Orwell Archive GalleryThe Orwell Prize, which honours work that...
View ArticleThe debate over Scotland’s future: do women care?
What does the gender gap in attitudes towards independence tell us about Scottish women, their political attitudes and changing roles in society? This piece looks back to Gerry Hassan's article 'Mind...
View ArticleThatcher, Churchillism and the three words no one mentions
Anthony Barnett reflects on Margaret Thatcher's achievements, character and the one thing pivotal to her success but frequently ignored - oil.I have just listened to the extended edition of the BBC's...
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The Cyprus-Russia connection: political culture and public attitudes
Cyprus' unique political culture, as well as its relationship with Russia, played an important yet underappreciated role in the island's recent economic crisis.Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
View ArticleBank-money and the betrayal of democracy
In this speech given at the PSA conference in Cardiff, the author examines the history and theory of bank money - credit - from a democratic perspective. How did this strange fraud come to be...
View ArticleThatcher was not the answer but a new direction was needed
Before advocating a return to a pre-Thatcher era of socialism and solidarity, remember the suffocating Labour years preceding her ascension. This House, playing at The National, takes us back to the...
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Russian money laundering: how does it work?
Cyprus’s monetary crisis has drawn international attention to the island’s role as a tax haven and money laundry for Russia’s rich. Meanwhile, Putin has announced a crackdown at home — which Pavel...
View ArticleHow the clash between Islamism and Zionism not only affects the Middle East...
The author in his latest book, Dangerous Liaisons: The Clash between Islamism and Zionism (2013), contends that the antagonism between Islamism and Zionism in the west is a significant threat to...
View ArticleFall of Baghdad – 10 Years On
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, former chair of the Stop the War movement and Iraq hostage negotiator, Anas Altikriti, says Iraq has never been closer to a civil war.Ten...
View ArticleFear of escalation at the LOC
More than 65 years after partition, a mediated resolution to the Kashmir conflict remains illusory. Fear of escalation between nuclear rivals has prevented all-out war - but what will finally lead to...
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