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Published in: HomeThe white and pleasant landA racist assault on unfamiliar ground provokes Delwar Hussain to reflect on why the British countryside looks less...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSpiked in the 18th century
There's a particularly witty hashtag doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment which I couldn't resist sharing. The...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Blair memoirs – fact or fiction?Having published two books about Blair, John Morrison was interested to find out if what he had written about the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat can we learn from Mad Men?
The attacks on US market provision of high-quality programming by defenders of the BBC, exemplified by Steve...
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Published in: oDRRussian documentary film: extinct, or almost. Interview with Vitaly Mansky. Part twoDuring perestroika Russians flocked to documentary films to find out about their ‘lost’ history. Then they lost...
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Published in: HomeA choice of 9/11s
Whatever else may be beyond our control, we are all free to choose which 9/11 moves us most deeply
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Published in: HomeThe Mate Market
Every online dating candidate is visible, in unsparing detail, to every other. The chances of finding the right...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe first Tony Blair book and the failure of New LabourWhen trying to understand what happened to New Labour, it is instructive to compare the spirit of progressive...
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Published in: oDRRussian documentary film: extinct, or almost. Interview with Vitaly ManskyIn the late 80s Russians flocked to documentary films to find out about their ‘lost’ history. Now they’re becoming...
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Published in: HomeSaxon villages: restoration is for the futureThe work of restoring the Romanian Saxon Transylvanian villages, as undertaken by the Mihai Eminescu Trust is not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRacial exclusion in the world of online dating
There are plenty of people who don’t regard publicly announcing their racial preferences as wrong in any way.
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Published in: openSecurityRhetoric and reality: the clash of civilisations from Classical Greece to today
The concept of the ‘clash of civilisations’ is usually traced back to Classical Greece. In Classical times as today,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMark Thompson's MacTaggart lecture: a response
Mark Thompson's MacTaggart lecture was a blinkered attempt to skewer Sky while ignoring the BBC's own culpability in...
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Published in: openIndiaKashmir: a place of blood and memory
In attempting to suffocate a separate Kashmiri identity, India reveals the cracks in its own idea of nationhood,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe battle for quality: Mark Thompson's MacTaggart lecture
Mark Thompson responds to critics at the James MacTaggart memorial lecture.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRobert Harris on Tony Blair and the new film of The GhostThe Ghost, the film by Roman Polanski adapted from the political thriller by Robert Harris, is out from Monday 20...
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Published in: HomeTransylvanian villages: conservationism, but at what price?The interest in preservation and conservation of old, yet changed Saxon villages throughout Transylvania, often...
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Published in: oDRThe Poet and the Tsar
When Putin sat down to tea with artists and musicians before a charity concert last month, he could not have...
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Published in: HomeEdwin Morgan, 1920-2010
The poet and translator Edwin Morgan has died at the age of 90 in his beloved home city of Glasgow. David Hayes...
