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# Anxious times for politics - The Week in 1 Minute: June 2 – 9 on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/anxious-times-for-politics-week-in-1-minute-june-2-9-on-opendemocracy/
- Published: 2014-06-08T23:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:40:10.000Z
- Description: Our euro-elections coverage closes with the last thoughts of the young Euro-bloggers in two parts, ongoing interest in Renzi’s triumph and Podemos in the vacuum left by Spain’s monarch,populism in the media (podcast), Europe’s Roma, and a recognised comeback for left-right politics as well as raci
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- Tags: The Week in 1 Minute, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:46, #appended-excerpt

*OurKingdom* and *50.50* scrutinize Northern Ireland in this context, with a [shocking rollcall](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/f159d5864e&ref=opendemocracy.net) of hatred, followed by [fightback](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/4cfc783a3a&ref=opendemocracy.net) in the **‘race hatred capital of Belfast’**, (to be compared with [today’s Australia](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/ffe43d9839&ref=opendemocracy.net)), Kathryn Stone (Victim’s Commissioner for Northern Ireland) on [dealing with the past](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/52617df266&ref=opendemocracy.net), and Mairead Maguire [against militarism](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/8733a8ec81&ref=opendemocracy.net). NATO meanwhile is noticed [slipping back into confrontation](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/e318cc3476&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
*oDR* surveys the [Ukrainian presidential election](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/d13755c55a&ref=opendemocracy.net), views **the prospects for civil war** in [the battle for Donetsk](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/4fe34ad49e&ref=opendemocracy.net), looks at[Turkey’s role in Central Asia](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/256d9628fe&ref=opendemocracy.net), ponders the [ultimate Russian conspiracy theory](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/f7476f3c05&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [pursues its LGBT series](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/fc38037222&ref=opendemocracy.net) to Samara*.* 
  
*Transformation* [publishes](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/c39f44383c&ref=opendemocracy.net) an **unforgettable Chelsea Manning graphic novel**, asks if the LGBTQ movement should [fight for prison abolition](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/02e4c4e23c&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [probes deathbed politics](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/8e3dceb228&ref=opendemocracy.net). We launch our partnership with the [OPENCITYDOCSFEST](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/d9897dcc6e&ref=opendemocracy.net) with two [tantalising](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/4d3d89a359&ref=opendemocracy.net) [previews](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/3eb6a14c80&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
*openGlobalRights* has some advice for the [new Human Rights Commissioner](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/7a37be5d6b&ref=opendemocracy.net), and a warning against the [deadening hand of over-eager gatekeeping](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/c4ef63127d&ref=opendemocracy.net), as we make full use of anniversaries this week to ponder the human rights of protesters in [Gezi Park](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/f37e4abc0d&ref=opendemocracy.net) and **Tiananmen Square**, where lessons [learned by men](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/14f8bed8bc&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [women](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/ffc4e4a362&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [from Poland](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/a37f864796&ref=opendemocracy.net), coincide with China’s [official silence, public restiveness](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/fc76fe0268&ref=opendemocracy.net), and the [New Citizens Movement](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/5cbfa831d1&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
*OurKingdom*, otherwise concerned with [the precariat](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/401535c061&ref=opendemocracy.net), the[economy](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/08f90dd5f0&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [nationalism](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/daf1519b91&ref=opendemocracy.net), joins forces with oD to [mark another anniversary](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/dcbbdb7fc1&ref=opendemocracy.net): [one year of living](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/30fe8fbe24&ref=opendemocracy.net) with Snowden’s revelations, further illuminated by Anthony Barnett in interviews with**General Michael Hayden**, [former Director of the NSA](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/aebc2c927f&ref=opendemocracy.net) and **William Binney** who [built it and blew the whistle too](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/52f06fd42e&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
[Paul Rogers leads](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/07bd4bb329&ref=opendemocracy.net) the **return of Syria** to our front page, with a portrait of [Aleppo today](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/786900b67f&ref=opendemocracy.net), discussion of [Assad’s election,](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/0ee8bc8fb4&ref=opendemocracy.net) the [regime’s confidence](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/0bed2d81b7&ref=opendemocracy.net), portrait of a [dynasty](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/039699ed2f&ref=opendemocracy.net), the [bitter debate](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/7d0a99124b&ref=opendemocracy.net), and how jihadists are [winning over the upcoming generation](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/3a9ba0fcdd&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [impacting on Jordanian politics](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/fddb0dd8f2&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
In this week’s feature on **‘Politics in the times of anxiety’**Zygmunt Bauman’s meditation on that “middling link in the chain of dependency”, [Europe – ](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/dc01f7614c&ref=opendemocracy.net)[*Quo Vadis?*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/8fae1fa34a&ref=opendemocracy.net)*,* is joined by an account of how mainstream [European governments exploit](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/38931a44e7&ref=opendemocracy.net) the rise of the ‘far right’; the contradictions arising from **pressures on the Greek police** and their [negative impact on immigration enforcement](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/b278c41ab2&ref=opendemocracy.net); the [Global Preventive Security](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/4d1d0c6505&ref=opendemocracy.net) fantasy; [fear of youth radicalisation](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/1ff4e66e35&ref=opendemocracy.net) in Syria; Brazil’s penchant for the [violent obliteration of difference](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/8d6eb6d50a&ref=opendemocracy.net); [Nazi propaganda](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/66ba109706&ref=opendemocracy.net) with a calculated twist; [the social value of political anxiety](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/446136f8e2&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [neoliberalism as obsessional neurosis](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/187311111f&ref=opendemocracy.net), with a closing *tour de force* on [modern sovereignty and the impossibility of killing off enough people](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/242b25b278&ref=opendemocracy.net) in the divine right way.  
  
  
**Don’t miss**:

- [Protect your online privacy with the *Reset the Net*’s Privacy Pack](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/c2ced5765a&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [65 things about surveillance we know because of Ed Snowden](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/418c1c718d&ref=opendemocracy.net) (EFF)
- [Dave Chapelle in conversation with Maya Angelou](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/f58e728dce/v=okc6COsgzoE&ref=opendemocracy.net) (video; 48 minutes, but worth it)

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Our euro-elections [coverage](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/73a6ff81b9&ref=opendemocracy.net) [closes](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/b3eaea8f72&ref=opendemocracy.net) with the [last thoughts](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/2ac8780d1d&ref=opendemocracy.net) of **the young Euro-bloggers** [in two parts](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/4ff7ad7f63&ref=opendemocracy.net), ongoing interest in [Renzi’s triumph](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/c28664e5f0&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Podemos](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/563b233761&ref=opendemocracy.net) in [the vacuum](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/91bc3f84bf&ref=opendemocracy.net) left by [Spain’s monarch](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/560633a597&ref=opendemocracy.net),[populism in the media](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/d76bfd92d6&ref=opendemocracy.net) (podcast), Europe’s [Roma](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/5ac6b214ad&ref=opendemocracy.net), and a recognised [comeback for left-right politics](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/79a4741f91&ref=opendemocracy.net) as well as [racial prejudice in Britain](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/83061d132f/7262321cfa/b3e2b67237&ref=opendemocracy.net).