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Published in: HomeA tribute to Sadek Jalal al ‘AzmEngaging with Sadek never ceased to be a delight, a charmer who caught you with his sharpness and wit. How often...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?In the Netherlands, the populist battle plays out over a Christmas figureWilders’s Freedom Party has held a consistent lead in the polls for over a year, and is now running head to head...
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Published in: Home"In democratic schools I haven't seen any bullying at all.""All the problems in education you can relate back to the coercion in schools. To me the forcing of children is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"We don’t have a refugee crisis. We have a housing crisis."With national and European governments in gridlock, the cities themselves have decided to bypass the state level...
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Published in: HomeAsk yourself thisWe are starting to see that we have to drastically change – the greatest challenge in human history. So what is the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The food fight is onWorld Food Day, 2016: Agribusiness mega-mergers would rubber-stamp destructive industrial farming. Europe’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We need bolder politicians“We have seen a lengthy period during which politicians have deliberately disengaged from important aspects of what...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Aruba vote on civil partnerships could finally extend LGBT rights to all Dutch citizensThe Netherlands is championed as a world pioneer in gay marriage, but its citizens still lack access to marriage...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brexit: a dismantling momentWe have reached a turning point with an uncertain outcome, in which the British and European dimensions are two...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What does an anti-Semitic party look like in Europe today?As Britain debates antisemitism and the left, support for populist right-wing parties using hardline anti-Semitic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Interviewing Babah Tarawally, Dutch novelist and former refugee from Sierra LeoneBabah Tarawally’s message is one of hope; he urges refugees to emancipate themselves from both a racist or...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dutch popular rejection of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: a self-inflicted woundFor everybody who knows a bit about the EU, the nationwide, expensive and low-turnout Dutch plebiscite on this...
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Published in: 50.50Women cyclists are dying, why are we still talking about their clothes?
Cycling deaths are gendered and women's cycling needs must taken into account by planners and campaigners.
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Published in: HomeNeoliberal realpolitik: choking others in our nameThis lack of lived experience with the violence of our state entails an almost inevitable blindness to the deepening...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Netherlands' disgrace: racism and police brutalityA disturbing trend in the Netherlands towards more intense forms of racial profiling is converging with increasingly...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?First we take Amsterdam, then we take The HagueFor those in Red Square, the Winter Palace is not in Amsterdam, but in the Dutch seat of government. Meanwhile, the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A new language of hospitalityThe complex linguistic identities of migrants to Europe are constantly denied recognition. We must renew the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How European Union switchboard "demoicracy" worksThe complexity of the changing nation-state under the duress of globalization is currently snagged on a simplistic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why we occupy: Dutch universities at the crossroadsThe Netherlands, a mere 10 years behind the UK, seems eager to catch up. Twin pressures of authoritarianism from...
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Published in: HomeIn search of the spider in Anders Behring Breivik's webFor months we searched for the Norwegian terrorist’s most prominent supporter. Our hunt ended in a suburb in South...
