The EU becomes assertive in the Middle East Peace Process
The adoption of this EU directive might be the first step towards a much needed ‘paradigm shift’ that will no longer enable Israel to dismiss the EU’s voice as ‘unpleasant background noise’, the phrase...
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Postcard to Khodorkovsky
“Dear Mikhail Borisovich, we’re having such a lovely time in London – weather is fabulous, the shops are SO good! Sorry we haven’t been in touch, but we are just so busy defending democracy! Wish you...
View ArticleBaader-Meinhof, Edward Snowden and learning the 'right' lesson
The American government treats Edward Snowden like a member of al-Qaeda or the Baader-Meinhof Group. This violation of Snowden's human rights illustrates how governments tend to seriously restrict...
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What's Left in Poland?
In the first article of our new debate on the Left in Poland, Anna Grodzka MP discusses her party, the Palikot Movement, and its commitment to freeing up and encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of...
View ArticleEgypt: when journalists are not welcome
Much of the debate revolved around the use of the word ‘coup’ in describing what had happened, not merely an issue of great symbolic importance but mainly a crucial determinant of continued American...
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Liberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overview
One of Britain's most distinguished political theorists on republicanism, freedom, Machiavelli, Hobbes, the Reformation, Shakespeare, Milton and much more. Has modern society lost touch with Roman...
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The risk of new skills
Bettering education has always been seen as the key to reducing the number of people on benefits, but are we addressing the angle from the right direction. What would happen if there was more security...
View ArticleGuerra y paz, cosa de hombres
Una visión general confirma que la inclusión y participación de las mujeres en los actuales procesos de paz sólo se evidencia en la retórica al encontrar una gran resistencia dentro de la profundamente...
View ArticleRevolution and the limits of populism
The bottom-line is that revolution is too loose a category to describe what is happening in Egypt. The real fight is not between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces but between different...
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Commercial masters of our Voice
Once upon a time publishers sold content to readers, and readers to advertisers. This two-fold market is being destroyed by the same technology that enables writers and readers to engage with each...
View ArticleWelcoming Adam Ramsay to OurKingdom
OurKingdom welcomes a new Co-Editor.OurKingdom’s editorial structure has undergone some changes this last few months and we have settled now on what we hope will be the core team to take us through the...
View ArticleSyria: big danger, small hope
Syria's war is producing humanitarian crisis, the growth of radical paramilitaries, violence in Iraq, and intra-state conflict. In the morass there is but one chance of progress.The evolution of...
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Sergey Dvortsevoy, Talented Ripple Master
Sergei Dvortsevoy’s films may have won plaudits internationally, but his uncompromising observational style and ethical stance keep them out of the multiplexes in Russia. Zygmunt Dzieciolowski...
View ArticleCourt rejects UK gov attempt to send transplant patient to her death
Rejoicing in Yorkshire as Home Secretary is denied her wish to deport Roseline Akhalu to Nigeria.In London today judges rejected an appeal by Home Secretary Theresa May to deport a kidney-transplant...
View ArticleTunisia’s turning point
Tunisia’s second high-profile political assassination highlights the gravest shortcoming of the nascent Islamist government: the inability to contain the violence that increasingly threatens Tunisia’s...
View ArticleThe (un)freedom of the networked
The web has a dual nature - it promotes some freedoms and endangers many others. Making the most of it will mean fighting for it (from the archive, 2008)In 2008, I was invited by a free market...
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Scripted
A day trip to an interactive museum in a South Louisiana bayou offers our Sunday Comics columnist the chance to sample a different realityMy next-door neighbors, a husband and wife, lived for years in...
View ArticleThe question of sectarianism in Middle East politics
Everywhere the Arab uprisings have been confronted by the entrenched vested interests of old regimes, the so-called ‘deep state’ in Egypt, and by Islamist populism. The alignment of regional powers,...
View ArticleJustice in the UK: back to the 1930s?
Proposals to cut legal aid and judicial review in Britain will make it harder for people fighting for their rights to challenge the government's cuts agenda, and will remove one of the few lifelines to...
View ArticleUK justice workers walk out in protest against privatisation
The latest move in the swift and radical marketisation of British justice: the government is privatising the enforcement of criminal fines. Critics say this will push more vulnerable people into the...
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