A Good Friday Agreement for Kashmir

Naveed Qazi 5 August 2010
The prospect for peace in Kashmir lies, according to Naveed Qazi, in an adaptation of an arrangement similar to the one that brought peace to North Ireland.

Fairer Votes, not Fair Votes let alone Audio-Visual!

Anthony Barnett 5 August 2010
How should the 'Yes' campaign in the coming referendum pitch its case for 'AV'?

Where do we go from here? Part II: Challenging the "official future"

Anthony Barnett and Gerry Hassan 4 August 2010

The second of a wide-ranging three part conversation, touching on the state of British politics and democracy and how the left - weak and disorganised in the face of a resurgent neoliberalism - can propose and build alternatives to the dominant dogmas of the past thirty years.

British prime minister's terrorism allegations anger Pakistan

Jamie Munn 2 August 2010
Pakistani and British officials meet ahead of Zardari visit to London. One killed as rockets fired from Sinai towards Israel and Jordan. President Obama confirms US combat troop withdrawal from Iraq. Iranian president calls for one-on-one television debate with US president. Chechen leader hands over leadership to younger comrade. Sudan makes UN peacekeeping forces report all movement within the country. All this and more in today's security briefing.

The AV referendum - four possible outcomes

Anthony Barnett 2 August 2010
With the Coalition government rushing forward while simultaneously seeking to preserve and contain, what matters is not just whether there is a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ vote in the AV referendum, but also the way in which the outcome comes about.

Lawfair

Andy Hull 30 July 2010
Court scrutiny of the British security services is to be welcomed; we can't debate properly our security needs without openness.

Who was double-dealing whom after the election?

Anthony Barnett 29 July 2010
A BBC documentary on the creation of the UK's Coalition poses some interesting questions about what happened.

Women, politics and power - gender equality is not just a woman's issue

Anthony Barnett and Nick Pearce 29 July 2010
Ahead of the UK Feminista summer school this weekend, OK co-editor Anthony Barnett and director of IPPR Nick Pearce discuss what can be done to rectify the woeful under-representation of women in UK politics and public life.

S4C's mute allies

Steffan Powell 29 July 2010
After a drubbing in the press, the Welsh-language TV channel S4C needs champions

Lacking Cohesion? Cameron's National Citizen Service

Andy Mycock 28 July 2010
The government's "Big Society" approach to citizenship endangers other successful community initiatives.

Open Letter to Tristram Hunt MP

Anthony Barnett 27 July 2010
The historian of Engels and the English Civil War has become a Labour MP with an interest in constitutional reform. But what kind of interest?

Wikileaks release 90,000 documents relating to war in Afghanistan

Jamie Munn 26 July 2010
US condemns release of tens of thousands of classified Afghan war documents. Duch, Pol Pot’s infamous prison chief, is jailed for 19 years. Tehran reacts angrily to further EU sanctions on Iran. Bangladeshi war crimes court issues first arrest warrants. All this and more in today's security briefing.

Is there a UK "deep state"?

Anthony Barnett 26 July 2010
A one-time senior British diplomat names his country's 'deep state' as acting to prevent public knowledge of what happened when it invaded Iraq. Is there really a state within the state in the UK?

If code is law, then programmers rule

Tony Curzon Price 26 July 2010
Impressions of the Open Rights Group conference, Orgcon 2010

If there is no smoke, can there be fire?

Anthony Barnett 23 July 2010
The would be Labour leaders sniff the signals

What will the Big Society look like?

Peter Johnson 23 July 2010
As the UK's new Coalition government launches its 'Big Society' programme, surely the emphasis should be on institutions even if these are not part of the state.

bbc.co.uk's world cup paunch

Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal 22 July 2010
The BBC's world cup website, while excellent, made a mockery of the Strategy Review's promises of sensitivity to market concerns and the pruning of online services.

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

A Turkish Spring?

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Woolwich - terror or conflict?

Secret Courts: 8 nightmare scenarios now possible in Britain
Jo Shaw

Iran myths

Iranian presidential candidate and chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalill

Myths, falsehoods and misrepresentations about Iran
Peter Oborne and David Morrison

Palestinian borders

Palestine, peoples and borders in the new Middle East map
Ahmad Samih Khalidi

Nobel Women's Initiative

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Europe from the bottom up

European Union stars in Paris. Flickr/notarim. Some rights reserved.

A new Europe can only come from the bottom up
Etienne Balibar

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The media in Europe

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Mali: the plot thickens

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Remote control war

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oDRussia at journalismfestival .com

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