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Published in: Shine A LightThe coordinated attack on multiculturalismCentre-right parties across Europe are announcing the failure of multiculturalism. We are witnessing a co-ordinated...
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Published in: HomeOld and new demagoguery: the rhetoric of exclusion
Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic,...
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Published in: HomeEurope and its myopic leaders
Europe’s leaders are reversing their historically generous role in assisting countries out of criminality and...
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Published in: HomeCrisis - what crisis?
Why is widespread social anxiety fuelling xenophobia rather than criticism of neoliberal capitalism? What role has...
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Published in: HomeA message from the front line
Does Europe offer a model for a solution to xenophobia, or is it a major part of the problem; or is it just in a...
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Published in: HomeWho killed the poet?
Bardo and Ophelia at the triumphal arch: will the censored verses of Hamlet reveal to us who killed the poet? An...
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Published in: HomeThe new new radical right: spectre and reality
The emergence of a fresh current on Europe's political right, typified by figures such as Geert Wilders, is being...
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Published in: HomeHumanitarian wars and rejected refugees
For France, acting in a ‘humanitarian’ manner means intervening in Libya’s civil war but does not extend to freely...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe must let Muslim women who wear the veil speak for themselves
We all know what our politicians think of Muslim women who wear the veil. But the women themselves are rarely asked...
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Published in: HomeThe Sarkozy Redemption?
The UN-sanctioned military action in Libya has given President Sarkozy a chance to rejuvenate his image at home. But...
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Published in: HomeSarkozy's dangerous Mitterandian games with the National Front
President Nicolas Sarkozy lost two districts to the French National Front in cantonal elections at the week-end. His...
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Published in: HomeFrance, Europe, and the Arab maelstrom
An Arab world in transformation has found France’s elite shamed by its links with the old order. A control-freak...
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Published in: HomeIf you rule by code you will fall by code: the philosophy of Wikileaks
Diplomatic protocols and Internet protocols share rules but differ in their purpose. When the hacker ethic is...
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Published in: HomeWikiLeaks and democracy
The Robin Hoods of the net challenge the culture of secrecy that has major states in its grip - and thus perform a...
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Published in: openSecurityConfusion over US-Israel settlement deal
The US and Israel deadlocked over settlement negotiations. The speaker of the Lebanese National Assembly has said...
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Published in: HomeFrance’s pension reform: the bitter pill
The popular rejection of Nicolas Sarkozy’s abrupt changes to France’s pension system is rooted in the institutional...
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Published in: HomeA tale of miners, presidents and nations
The Chilean miners’ rescue, a inspiring story of human solidarity, offers the nation’s president a miraculous...
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Published in: oDRThe spectre of multipolar EuropeOn Monday, Sarkozy, Merkel and Medvedev will sit down to discuss a new European conception of global security. With...
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Published in: Home20, 2000 and 2: the three shadows of FacebookThe eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless...
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Published in: HomeReligious secularity
Is there a difference between secularity and secularism? Are they both essentially Christian, or essentially...
