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UKIP and the rise of English nationalism
People in England increasingly indentify as English rather than British, and so far it is the ‘blood and bitter’ reactionary nationalism of UKIP that is benefiting.flickr/ Adam J Brown Photography....
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A global human rights movement?
As a rallying call human rights remain somewhat cold and ethereal - ‘Scandinavian religion’ as Debray puts it, mockingly. Is it any wonder, therefore, that their appeal still remains limited to global...
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Did Keynesian policies fuel the European debt crisis?
Was the European sovereign debt crisis fuelled by Keynesian policies? Or has the structural framework of the Eurozone something to do with it?Flickr/www.eurocrisisexplained.co.uk. Some rights...
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Practising mindfulness at the checkpoint
Is caring for ourselves an act of self-indulgence or social change? Alessandra Pigni tests the boundaries of "mindfulness" on the border between Israel and Palestine.Alessandra Pigni. All rights...
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The Gezi spirit and the forums
Gezi Resistance has raised awareness about the importance of public spaces and the need for democratic platforms of deliberation. The local park forums are open to everyone who wants to join, and the...
View ArticleReframing the agents of resistance at Gezi Park
As the bearer of an underlying democratization process in Turkey with all its paradoxes, AKP still goes unchallenged insofar as the different groups of opposition who became visible in Gezi Park still...
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The neoliberal trap
Credit isn’t extended to help people get ahead. It’s the means for producing securitizable debt, which means financialization (one of the key features of neoliberalism) needs poor people, poor people...
View ArticleProfessor Ghulam Azam: a flawed conviction and miscarriage of justice
On the basis of a flawed trial bereft of substantial evidence, my father has now been sentenced to 90 years in prison. The Bangladeshi people must decide whether justice for crimes past is really being...
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A ghost of ignorance? Race and racism in contemporary Italy
In Italy, race and racial abuse do not receive much discussion in the public sphere, mainly being seen as an issue of history. Yet, in light of recent incidents with Cécile Kyenge, there is a need to...
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David Kelly and the silence of British media - 10 years on
Are concerns over the official narrative "conspiracy fodder", or have the media failed to adequately challenge the state's account of what happened? Flickr/Simon Li. Some rights reserved.The...
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Burke, Norman and Glasman - 'post-liberalism' in Britain today
At a Civitas seminar this week, Jesse Norman MP and Maurice Glasman of Blue Labour discussed Burke and his relevance to 'post-liberalism' today. Is a "new centre ground" really being carved out?Joshua...
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The Commonwealth and Sri Lanka’s disintegrating democracy
While the nation is all set to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) later this year, Sri Lankan democracy is disintegrating, with systematic torture and arbitrary detention...
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How to kill a zombie: strategizing the end of neoliberalism
An ideology which promised to liberate us from state socialist bureaucracy has instead imposed a bureaucracy all of its own. This only looks like a paradox if we take neoliberalism at its word. Why...
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Neoliberalism, child of the Keynesian state
The desire to see neoliberalism as the ’70s ruination of an earlier public consensus, is a desire to which state-backed capital is all too willing to direct us. The received wisdom of neoliberalism as...
View ArticleNeoliberal networks: a response to William Davies
The question of how these two disparate logics - network sociality and neoliberal competitive individualism - relate to each other is arguably the key issue in the analysis of contemporary power...
View ArticleForget legitimacy: the Egyptian Army’s intervention has come at the expense...
The west needs to take a step back from the ‘coup or revolution’ debate to consider what the overthrow of Morsi means for democracy in Egypt, and remember why democracy is the best bad system. The...
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Investing in food security? On philanthrocapitalism, biotechnology and...
Africapitalism and philanthrocapitalism represent a progressive convergence of business principles with social philanthropy. But vigilance is needed to ensure long-term success amid highly...
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The burning train
Anastasiya Valeyeva describes a bullish mood aboard the train carrying opposition leader Aleksey Navalny from Moscow to Kirov yesterday. Navalny and 'accomplice' Petr Ofitserov would in the morning be...
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Frighten and be frightened
The uncompromising sentences passed down today to Aleksey Navalny and co-defendant Petr Ofitserov demonstrate that the Putin regime has entered its twilight phase, says Kirill Rogov. Navalny’s sentence...
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The neo-liberal knowledge regime, inequality and social critique
The argument about students holds that there should not be a direct public subsidy of a private beneficiary. But on the impact agenda the situation is reversed. Here the Government’s view is that...
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