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Published in: openIndiaKashmir: a place of blood and memoryIn 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...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere Scotland stands? The strange state of the Scottish Left and the cultural assembly of a nation
The Scottish left is in decline and crisis today, bereft of ideas and numbers. Yet a new generation of novelists...
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Published in: HomeEcocentrism: a response to Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth’s journey from a degraded environmentalism to nature-centred ways of living and thinking has many...
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Published in: HomeConfessions of a recovering environmentalist
"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right,...
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Published in: oDRDreaming of the sea, or a holiday in MoynaqDaniel Metcalfe's book ‘Out of Steppe’ describes his journey through Central Asia. In this excerpt he describes the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Last Man of Iron: can we find leadership without certainty?
The death of Jimmy Reid marks the loss of one of the last Men of Iron. But as the tributes pour in, it feels as if...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA familiar assault on the BBC: a response to David Graham's report for the Adam Smith InstituteThe Adam Smith Institute and the wider right could never palate the success of any publicly funded institution, so...
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Published in: HomeA Jewish comment on cosmopolitan citizenship in the Middle East
Could a cosmopolitan citizenship in the Middle East ever include Israel? The fundamental meaning of Jewish...
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Published in: HomeToy Story 3: Crying for ourselvesTony Curzon Price's reading of Toy Story 3 fails to adequately explain why grown men cry in this film. There is...
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Published in: HomeLotus Eaters
A Turkish Jew, born in Ankara in 1935, for whom Israel became ‘my spiritual country’, discovers that those who love...
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Published in: HomeThe playthings of humanityFulfilment does not come from self-government in Toy Story 3. Can Pixar ever let the Toys go free? See Related...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCloned food, open your throats for market nihilismProduce from cloned animals has now entered the British food chain for the first time. This represents the dawning...
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Published in: HomeSixty-five years after Hiroshima, the nightmare of nuclear war haunts us still
Daniel Bruno Sanz reviews the sci-fi imaginings of nuclear war and their place in contemporary consciousness.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere do we go from here? Part II: Challenging the "official future"
The second of a wide-ranging three part conversation, touching on the state of British politics and democracy and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere do we go from here? Part I: The frustrations of British politics
In the first of a wide-ranging three part conversation, Anthony Barnett and Gerry Hassan discuss the state of...
