It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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If Guy Fawkes had won ... how the victors would have written up what has followed
The great events in Europe in 1989 had a worldwide impact - and it was in many ways destructive
How do the upheavals of 1989 look now? On the anniversary, openDemocracy writers reflect: Katinka Barysch: Timebends Arthur Ituassu: A time of fusion While celebrating Europe’s “velvet revolutions” we should recall that what happened in Srebrenica is also part of Europe’s post-1989 history
The Palestinians’ right of return challenges not only international law itself, but more so the political will of UN member states to act.
The spreading
Naxalite insurgency in India - not al-Qaida - may show the world its
future
Ten million children are born annually in India. Primary education should be a vital lifeline, for those who survive A rethinking that enlarges understanding of the events of 1948 can help find solutions sixty years on
A massacre in Thailand's Muslim-majority south symbolises the state's lack of accountability
The fragmentation of Bosnia reflects the long afterlife of the Bosnian Serb leader's political project
A creative anthropologist's gift is ideas that inform understanding of the human mind and its cultures
President Lula's Brazil has achieved new status and rising prosperity. But two key tests remain
How, in a year of lost fear and found courage, east Europeans vanquished a degrading system
Washington's escape-route from crisis lies not in military escalation but in a change of thinking
A people's wave that tore down Europe's walls connects an old island with a new world
A year after the arrest in Iran of pioneering blogger Hossein Derakhshan, there is news of his fate
The state’s post-election violence has led Iranians to seek new channels for their anger and hope
The
achievement of a radical filmmaker divides and haunts Italy, thirty-four years after his death
A presidency born in hope of change is stuck. A year since the election, an anniversary assessment
A coherent shift towards a civilian, Afghan, regional, and UN-led policy can still rescue a failing strategy
Washington's offer of co-superpower status leaves the Chinese elite divided and worried
The danger of states or terrorists using “incapacitatant” chemical agents is growing. It's time to contain it
The fashion for Turing-inspired physicalism and functionalism in the philosophy of mind denies the existence of the other, which Emmanuel Levinas and Timothy Sprigge put at the center of understanding the human condition
War and mismanagement have produced a breakdown of trust, decency and reciprocity in Afghan society. Gender activism needs to be understood in that context, and not be tempted by crude cultural determinism
Elinor Ostrom's work on non-market, non-state solutions to the management of commons has no easy lessons for Copenhagen
A contemporary of "neoconservatism's godfather" describes the arc of an intellectual life from post-New Deal assimilationism through McArthyism and CIA-funded organs of Cold War soft power
Norman Borlaug's work fed billions. The new challenge is to maintain crop yields with lower environmental costs
OurKingdom on Nick Griffin and the BBC. Read Anthony Barnett, David Elstein, Gerry Hassan on what the BBC and the political class should do
Peter Johnson tries to understand the credit crisis through a critique of Bentham's defense of usury. Tony Curzon Price praises the boundary-eroding nature of credit. Thomas Ash defends utilitarianism as an altruism
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