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Politicians have been playing Monopoly with people's lives, and Grenfell is the tragic result. 

Highly unusual punitive damages awarded to Felix Wamala, who was subjected to intensely painful, dangerous restraint techniques.

In a national security state, the world is transformed into a vast reservoir of potential enemies, all bent on our destruction. Such a climate precludes imagining national life beyond the quest for security.

How national cuisines became yet another battlefield in the enmity between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Русский

How one man moved from gang culture to permaculture.

В этом году исполняется 20 лет мирному соглашению в Таджикистане. Хотя оно положило конец войне, его нарушение привело к власти несменяемого авторитарного президента. English

Recent developments in Spanish law have put domestic workers on a firmer footing, but there’s a long way to go before they are treated at equal to workers in other sectors.

To survive, the SNP needs to focus on the politics of the long-term and develop a truly ambitious strategy, which so far it has neglected to do.

In an age of disinformation, sincerity is political. The films of Andrei Zvyagintsev are powerful precisely because of this.

The meaning of Grenfell was immediately understood. Grenfell condemns neoliberal government, which denies it has a name, and forces confrontation with the brutal inequality that is its context.

Western pundits and policymakers often see Russian influence in terms of the hybrid threat. But the lens of soft power explains more in terms of Russia’s attraction for marginal politicians.

One of the risks of conventional politics is seeing the world through ideas which are subsidiary to a certain, old way of understanding the geography and the geometry of concepts. Español Português

This year is the 800th anniversary of a founding document of the British constitution, and of other constitutions as well. Issued in the name of a ten-year-old King Henry III alongside the modified Ch...