The Olympic security fence is a modern day form of enclosure

PHILIP COMERFORD

Spanning an area of 500 acres and endowed with over 900 surveillance cameras, the Olympic security fence is an aggressive demarcation of a 'post-political non-place'. Born from a conscious manipulation of UK planning legislation, what does this ‘exceptional example’ tell us about historical and future threats to public space in Britain?

Andy Wilkes. All rights reserved.

Is there a future for women living with HIV?

ALICE WELBOURN

Rumours of the closure of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, and a World Bank and USAID meeting of "world thought leaders" with no women on the panel. On the final day of the XIX International AIDS Conference, Alice Welbourn reports on the battle for the human rights of women with HIV to health, participation in the world, and to dignity.

The incredible Dilma Rousseff

ARTHUR ITUASSU

Brazil's president is facing great challenges with honesty, sincerity, hard work and conscience, says Arthur Ituassu.

Aurora, the Joker won the game

MARIANO AGUIRRE

Apart from gun control, there is another problem that the authorities in the US (and in most of the world’s societies) avoid addressing: the culture (or subculture) of violence in the electronic entertainment era.

The SWISH Report (21)

PAUL ROGERS

How does al-Qaida see the tumult in the Arab world, the persistent conflict in other regions - and its own prospects? The movement commissions its longstanding management consultants to write a report, which is exclusively published on openDemocracy.

Algerians are yet to be free

KAMAL BENKOUSSA

The Algerian population is a young one, with 70% under the age of 35. These youths will end up, sooner or later, rejecting the notion that their future is mortgaged – and bitter memories of the violence of the 1990s will not be enough to hold them at bay.

Associated Press on Gaza, exposed but unbowed

MOHAMMED SULIMAN

"My Muslim friends here in Gaza also wish me Merry Christmas and come to visit me at Christmas. So what the media says about Arabs and intolerance isn’t true."

The Olympic security fence is a modern day form of enclosure

PHILIP COMERFORD
Spanning an area of 500 acres and endowed with over 900 surveillance cameras, the Olympic security fence is an aggressive demarcation of a 'post-political non-place'. Born from a conscious manipulation of UK planning legislation, what does this ‘exceptional example’ tell us about historical and future threats to public space in Britain?

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Heather McRobie


Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

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