Nearly a million NHS staff are due to receive a long-awaited pay rise at the end of this month. But new figures released quietly last week have caused fury – and confusion even amongst some unions.

A strong and independent legal community is the most significant obstacle to the arbitrariness of authoritarian rule.

For Rabat, the challenge will be to access the EU funds and more while getting away from any significant EU impact. That is, even if it means faking Europeanization.

What is the source of the 21st century tendency to authoritarianism? The central purpose of neoliberal re-regulation is to remove economic policy from control by representative democracy.

“Like the infamous Dreyfus case, with every passing day, this is looking more and more like a political assassination and not a fair adjudication.”

Ironically, it is the drafters of the Labour party’s NEC Code, not their critics, who have grasped the meaning of ‘working definition’.

The popular outburst against repression finds Nicaraguans disjointed and disorganized. Restoring the social fabric, torn apart by neoliberal policies and government persecution, is an absolute necessity. Español

England's sporting heroes tell us something important about patriotism.

The furore over the new Labour NEC Code of Conduct on Antisemitism.

How can we ethnographically ground postmodern interest in human-animal relations?

One year on since Georgia’s far right publicly announced themselves, how has their agenda developed?

The west cannot preach democracy and free media in Tajikistan while leaving the locals who implement these principles to fend for themselves.

Resorting to extreme violence has caused the Ortega/Murillo regime, which operates like an old dictatorship, to lose support from the entrepreneurial class that until now sustained it. Español