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Saturday 20th March

Making good society

Guy Aitchison, 20 March 2010

Observations from the Compass conference

Anthony Barnett, 20 March 2010
Friday 19th March

Book review: Empowering who: the Prime Minister or the People?

Andrew Blick, 19 March 2010
A constitution for the UK may be emerging, typically in the form of an official manual. But what if “We the people” were to begin from the popular end of the debate? Andrew Blick reviews a brave book that seeks to initiate that debate.

A Leap Less Far

John Jackson, 19 March 2010

Taliban break off closet negotiations after Pakistani crackdown

Oliver Scanlan, 19 March 2010
The former UN envoy to Afghanistan criticises Pakistan’s arrest of senior Taliban figures, saying this has put talks with the militant leadership at risk. The Quartet condemns Israeli settlement construction. The Burmese military sustains casualties fighting against northern rebel groups. All of this and much more, in today’s security update.

Has Meg Hillier gone mad?

Clare Sambrook, 19 March 2010
The Home Office minister is in la la land over child detention.

Life by traffic light - Delhi's street kids

Spriha Srivastava, 19 March 2010
Can India begin to channel some of the creative energy of its twenty-five million street children? Why don’t school lunch schemes work?

Forgotten lessons: Palestine and the British empire

James Renton, 19 March 2010
While the conflict that is the legacy of British involvement in Palestine daily captures world headlines, Britain's foster-role is too often ignored. Such an omission is all the more tragic, James Renton argues, since mandate era misjudgements are being readily repeated.

Kafka’s Castle is collapsing

Andrei Loshak, 19 March 2010
You can’t reason with the absurd, as IKEA found when it tried to build a model business in Russia. Institutional corruption is out of control. Kafka’s Castle is finally collapsing. This is good news, as Russians, ordinary Russians are losing their fear. Now they’re just angry, says Andrei Loshak.

Once again, the Iraqi compass points north

Mohammed Hussainy, 19 March 2010
The votes are in and the Iraqi coalitions have entered a complex process of deal making and realignment. Little can be predicted with any certainty, but the Kurdish parties look set to regain their place as kingmakers in Baghdad.