Entrepreneurial policing? International policing challenges
The exportation of policing is a global growth industry in which the UK plays a major role. Recent years have seen the proliferation of private security company involvement in international policing,...
View ArticleDisruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest
From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of intelligence-led policing. Deployed within the policing of protest, it poses a grave threat to the...
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Curing the poison of "rankism"
The cancer of “rankism” persists as a residue of our predatory past. But the urge to dominate others isn’t working any more. Using weapons of mass disruption, the disenfranchised can bring modern life...
View ArticleDoes the BBC not trust US intelligence on Iran?
If the BBC wants to speculate on Iranian nuclear capabilities and the potential for conflict, why is it ignoring the clear consensus of US intelligence, and for what purpose?On 28 May 2013, BBC Radio 4...
View ArticleNigeria’s fourteen-year sentence for gay marriage
Britain and the United States have aligned foreign aid with gay rights and have threatened to cut aid to Nigeria if the current bill is passed.Last month, my country inched closer to the outright...
View ArticleDrawn into conflict: the war in Syria and the consequences for the Lebanese...
As the Syrian conflict spills over the border, the Lebanese tourist and trade sectors have taken a hit. It is imperative that Lebanon breaks its political deadlock and avoids sectarian conflict at all...
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Justice imperilled
We must challenge the media’s influence on our justice system.Christian Rowlands is undergraduate joint winner of the John Howard Essay Prize 2013. The question was: Trial by tabloids: Do the media...
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Guilty or innocent? Let the courts decide
How pre-trial publicity threatens the administration of justice.Katie Sambrooks is undergraduate joint winner of the John Howard Essay Prize 2013. The question was: Trial by tabloids: Do the media...
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Trial by tabloids
Media misbehaviour can wreak havoc on ordinary lives — is it worth it?Rose Harvey is the postgraduate winner of the John Howard Essay Prize 2013. The question was: Trial by tabloids: Do the media...
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Penal reformers of the future?
Congratulations to Rose Harvey, Katie Sambrooks and Christian Rowlands. OurKingdom publishes the winners of this year's John Howard Essay Prize, in association with the Howard League for Penal Reform...
View ArticleBizarre trials in UAE
The logic of the authorities is truly Orwellian – the only offence of the ‘criminals’ was thought crime.A bizarre trial has started in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Waleed al-Shehhi is facing charges...
View ArticleHow to fry a planet
Don't for a second imagine we are heading for an era of renewable energy.Look at it any way you want, and if you’re not a booster of fossil fuels on this overheating planet of ours, it doesn’t look...
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Pro-nuclear propaganda in 1983: lessons for 2013
Labour's nuclear disarmament policies of the 1980s were not to blame for electoral failure, argues Rebecca Johnson. A sensible, fact-based debate about Trident replacement requires Ed Miliband to...
View ArticleThe British Police: getting away with murder since 1969
827 people have died in police custody since 2004. Not a single police officer has been convicted. Families have struggled hard for justice, encountering multiple failures and police collusion from the...
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Nazi sympathisers allowed to run UK radio stations?
Is a firm with ties to the promotion of SS troops as 'heroes', despite their units being involved in war crimes, a deserving owner of a UK radio station?The sorry saga of the ownership of the heavily...
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Your medical data - on sale for a pound
The arbitrary resetting of people’s ‘privacy settings’ is a behaviour one might expect of Facebook, not the NHS.Picture: Flickr / Community Eye Health. Some rights reserved.The government’s...
View ArticleJULY: Court rejects UK gov attempt to send transplant patient to her death —...
JULY: Rejoicing in Yorkshire as Home Secretary is denied her wish to deport Roseline Akhalu to Nigeria. AUGUST: Akhalu granted leave to remain.UPDATE 9 August 2013: Roseline Akhalu heard today that the...
View ArticleHas the US decided that the leadership of the Arab world goes to Saudi Arabia?
Qatar’s new Emir swiftly congratulated the interim Egyptian president, Adly Mansour, who was appointed by the Egyptian army. This was in stark contrast to the fatwa issued on July 6, 2013 by Al...
View ArticleTunisia and the divided Arab Spring
Mutual fear may prevail and the use of force be felt necessary. Exactly this plays into the hands of the parasites inside the apparatus who are busy transforming themselves into a self-governing body...
View ArticleHow not to do diplomacy
The Gibraltar row between the UK and Spain is providing a masterclass in creating adversarial relationships. British foreign policy under Cameron and Hague has moved from interests to images. It is...
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