Friday 22 June 2012

22 June 2012
Top slot
Top article: 
A vote of confidence in Egypt’s presidency
Top article description: 
Where next for Egypt? Leadership demands a strong vision but with flexibility built in; and a developing economy should deploy policies from different points on the political spectrum
Top image: 
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Demotix/Christian Minelli. Electoral workers count ballots during Egypt's presidential election. All rights reserved.
Left column
Article 1: 
Jordan: smoke, mirrors and election laws
Article 1 description: 
‘Divide and Conquer’ has become ‘Confuse and Conquer’. The Jordanian government is using the tactic to maintain an illusion of democracy while discouraging voters from engaging
Article 2: 
Nepal, a constitutional impasse
Article 2 description: 
Nepal is still awaiting a new constitution to complete its transition to democracy after a decade of conflict. Political leaders’ control has hampered the drafting process — but the four-year debate has also created a foundation on which to build
Article 3: 
German own goal: why Berlin’s sense of invulnerability will be its undoing
Article 3 title: 
German own goal
Article 3 description: 
Without a mutualisation of risk, the euro will collapse, with devastating implications for German exports, the value of Germany's foreign investments, and the stability of its banking sector. By contrast, the reforms needed to stabilise the eurozone pose far fewer risks to Germany.
Right column
Article 1: 
Trimming the hair of an old man: or, volunteering within Chinese civil society
Article 1 title: 
Trimming an old man’s hair
Article 1 description: 
Government encouragement of ‘good citizenship’ and a societal backlash against the pursuit of wealth in China have led to a burgeoning volunteer movement. Its members are connected by a hugely popular instant messaging service
Article 2: 
Beware the new language of privatisation: state activity farmed out to profit making firms
Article 2 title: 
Beware the new language of privatisation
Article 2 description: 
The UK’s Ministry of Justice plans to hand over nine prisons to the private sector within weeks and will ‘outsource’ eight more in the next three years. Other state activity, too, is being farmed out to profit-making firms
Article 3: 
An Oxford Scot at King Dubya's court: Niall Ferguson's 'Colossus'
Article 3 description: 
First published in July 2004, an account of the current BBC Reith Lecture's long-standing affair with American power and its structures.
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