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A tale of two British summers: phone hacking and a royal baby
The royal birth is set to be the face of the 2013 summer, but to what extent does this reveal how little the media has changed since the phone hacking scandal in 2011? What happened to media reform?...
View ArticleNHS-speak and the failure of care in England's hospitals
Is compassion being crowded out of the NHS by the language and values of consumer capitalism?The NHS is in the uncomfortable glare of the political spotlight. The high mortality rates of Mid...
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Populism or the fear of democracy
What democracy really means is the capacity to do things. While the governing elite has increasingly borrowed populist rhetoric from the extreme right to win elections, it has also used the growth of...
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How did the crisis in Egypt snowball?
The official spokesman of Egypt’s Salafist Al Nour party tells us about recent events from his personal point of view. This is part one of his account.I belong to an Islamist political party that was...
View ArticleThis week's window on the Middle East - July 23, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, How did the crises in Egypt snowball?How did the crises in Egypt...
View ArticleMisunderstanding our mission
The founder of Human Rights Watch tells Stephen Hopgood and James Ron that this organisation is globalizing itself; though it has a long way to go, over time it will prove effective. But human rights...
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An uncertain future for Tunis
Two years after the revolution, Tunisians have reclaimed public spaces in the city. But failing municipalities, a lack of law enforcement, and scant engagement with urban planners are a cause for...
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From Russia, lessons for Egypt
Can manipulating the democratic process ever play out in the interest of progressive politics? Samuel A. Greene suggests not: we’ve been in this situation before, in post-Soviet Russia, with largely...
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Why the solution to Afghan state building post-2014 lies in regional diplomacy
Until 2012, there was no comprehensive U.S. strategy on Afghanistan. Additionally, a number of systemic issues hampered the development of the Afghan state and economic gains. After the withdrawal of...
View ArticlePopulism, anti-populism and European democracy: a view from the South
Isn’t it time to start dissecting the extremism of this ‘moderate centre’? Is it not the duty of every truly moderate citizen/social scientist, of every democrat, to radically oppose this extremism...
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What are white folks to do? Some thoughts on the Trayvon Martin case
Amid the outpuring of protest and opinion around the George Zimmerman case it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Here are some steps for white anti-racist allies to transform feelings into action.Trayvon...
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Orwell is drowning in data: the volume problem
In the Orwellian imagination, the fundamental flaw in state intrusion lay in overwhelming layers of bureaucracy. Dom Shaw reveals how late capitalism’s intersection of government administration and...
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Common ground and preserving differences
Xiaoyu Pu responds to strong arguments from David Schlesinger and Hugh Shapiro who have both challenged Pu's views on whether China could one day be a normative power.The responses from David...
View ArticleFrancis Wheen discusses the Royal baby with Ian Masters
Wheen is evidently as enthralled with the Royal newcomer as the rest of us and talks to Ian Masters about attitudes to the baby in Britain, the US and around the world.Listen to the discussion...
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Belusconi’s l’amico Nursultan, and the Shalabayeva affair
Silvio Belusconi has had lots of friends, or so he says – l’amico George (Bush), l’amico Tony (Blair), and now l’amico Nursultan (Nazarbayev) of Kazakhstan. The Shalabayeva affair has exposed the cost...
View ArticleThe Greek catastrophe and a possible way out
The lead author of a major econometric analysis of the Greek economic crisis discusses the disastrous outcomes of the policies enforced on Greece by its international lenders, and the IMF’s admission...
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The problem with the Chagos Islands
Natives of the Chagos islands have had their human rights and their land mistreated and taken away from them. In our modern society, how is it still acceptable to oust people from their homeland and...
View ArticleCool capitalism: changing the principles of protest
Advertising and marketing firms have helped to promote individuality through the image of 'cool', something that was harnessed at the time of the 1968 protests. How has this concept evolved and in what...
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Both Perilous and Wonderful? The Global Transformation of Authority
These are exciting times, when authority is being challenged everywhere. But what will replace the old models that have dominated both societies and ourselves? Can our own "collective intelligence"...
View ArticleHuman rights are also about social justice
Drawing on the central practices and aims of a traditional human rights organization as described by Aryeh Neier in his account of Human Rights Watch, let me respond, the author says, by imagining its...
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