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About Jonas Fossli Gjersø

Jonas Fossli Gjersø holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Find him on Twitter @JFGjerso

Articles by Jonas Fossli Gjersø

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Michael Edwards is editor of Transformation.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

The backfire effect, bad objects, and changing our minds online
David Beer
"Surveillance is the business model of the internet"
Agne Pix and Bruce Schneier
Pushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social media
Ricardo Poppi
Internet equality is about to get Trumped – let’s build a wall to defend it
Matthew Linares
Why BigData is running roughshod over the NHS - and what to do about it
Phil Booth
Shielding data from the "five eyes": we need to stand up for encryption
Rebecca Vincent
Child safeguarding cloaks state surveillance and data exploitation
Jen Persson
Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Jeremy Corbyn – a mainstream [Scandinavian] social democrat

Jonas Fossli Gjersø 9 June 2017

If there is such a thing as a ‘best practice approach’ in public policy the Nordic model would probably be it and, at any measure, a useful benchmark for Britain to move towards. First published on September 19, 2016.

Back to the future for economic inequality

Jonas Fossli Gjersø 14 November 2014

We are returning to Victorian inequality. Why is it tolerated?

Israel - the last of the settler colonies

Jonas Fossli Gjersø 10 September 2014

Examining the history of colonialism suggests that Israel today is more analogous to apartheid South Africa or French Algeria than to its settler state counterparts the United States or Australia.