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.

Afghan civil society must not be abandoned

Carlo Ungaro 23 July 2010
Afghan civil society and NATO war aims: talk to the Taleban and all traditional leaders

Why criminalise dialogue with terrorists?

Andy Carl and Sophie Haspeslagh 22 July 2010

UK Parliamentarians, the US Congress and the European Parliament need to take a closer look at the aspects of counter-terrorism legislation that have an adverse impact on mediation

The antiquarian of Herat

Carlo Ungaro 22 July 2010
Diplomatic reminiscences from Herat in the 1970s; delicate interventions, fragile civil society.

Tomlinson's killer not charged

Helen 22 July 2010
The British public prosecutor has just announced that there will be no charges against the police who killed a bystander at the G20 protests in London.

A microbicide success: feminism is essential to good science

Ida Susser 21 July 2010

Advocates for women pushed for microbicides when scientists working on AIDS vaccines and treatment had not even envisioned the problem of “methods women can use.” The announcement of the first microbicide ever shown to prevent HIV in women is the product of feminist visions

Trinity Mirror cuts and the crisis in media

Guy Aitchison 21 July 2010
An exchange between a Cardiff academic and the editor of South Wales's Western Mail raises fascinating questions about how newspapers should respond to market pressures and how professional journalism can be protected when the industry is in crisis.

Cosmopolitan citizenship in the Middle East

Sami Zubaida 20 July 2010
As ethnic and sectarian solidarities and conflicts sharpen in this part of the world, it may be worth reminding ourselves of another way of being - ‘new Ottoman’ cosmopolitanism, with its complex relationship to colonialism

Sistership in action: zoning in on Vienna

Alice Welbourn 20 July 2010

There we all were, presentation-writing abandoned, frantically wielding screwdrivers to construct eight large flatpack bookshelves which we have been lent for the week. Grace springs into action as the flatpack queen, explaining patiently to the rest of us the critical sequence to construction without tears. The frantic week has begun

Hooray for the visible panty line

Luisa Orsa 20 July 2010

The Women’s Networking Zone provides a space where no conversation is taboo, and where the mundane and seemingly ‘small’ details of women’s lives can be given a platform, so that the linkages between these realities, and HIV / AIDS policy and programming, can be made

The Big Society – practical steps for mutualising social housing

Jonathan Rosenberg 19 July 2010
There are a number of steps the Housing Minister should take to realise the aspirations in the government's "Big Society" agenda.

The power in telling stories

Shelley Anderson 19 July 2010

Nonviolence is a value, a tool, and a force which ordinary people can and do use daily. The undocumented nature of much nonviolent action perpetrates the myth that it is ineffectual: it is our duty to tell the stories.

Unholy Trinity: The decline of Welsh news media

Andy Williams 17 July 2010
Trinity Mirror’s business model has already caused serious decline in the Welsh news media, but how much worse can things get?

This week's editor

Heather McRobie


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

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