Kenneth Houston - openDemocracy

Talking to God: the corporate religious challenge to a pluralist, progressive Europe

On religion, EU and UN 'dialogue' with civil society is distinguished by egregious bias; far from serving democracy, it serves conservative religious voices and abjectly fails to address the consequences of ideological intransigence.

By Kenneth Houston

/ 30 Jul 2014

Talking to God: the corporate religious challenge to a pluralist, progressive Europe

On religion, EU and UN 'dialogue' with civil society is distinguished by egregious bias; far from serving democracy, it serves conservative religious voices and abjectly fails to address the consequences of ideological intransigence.

By Kenneth Houston

/ 30 Jul 2014

Reds, yellows and the fruits of neglect

The key cleavage opens up between those who have benefited under this ‘almost’ democracy and those who have been failed by it. But, the dynamics of political conflict in Thailand do not fall within the same framework as other global protest mobilisations.

By Kenneth Houston

/ 9 Dec 2013