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Published in: openSecurityTop Taliban commander captured in PakistanTaliban chief Mullah Baradar seized by US and Pakistani security services. Saudis doubtful about effectiveness of...
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Published in: HomeIran: what happened, where now?
Tehran’s rulers have pushed back the protest-wave that followed the fraudulent election of June 2009. But the...
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Published in: openSecurityAmnesty and justice in Afghanistan: "a nose made of dough"
In a bid to sweeten talks with disaffected Taliban, Karzai has revived a controversial amnesty law praising the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKScottish votes on English laws
We’re now into the last week of the Power2010 online vote and there appears to be just one competition: English...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJames 'Kiddo' Purnell praising and burying New Labour
The only one of New Labour's young stars with the courage to resign leaves a smooth but deadly calling card.
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Published in: HomeBeyond Berlusconi: ten questions to Italy’s opposition
Italy’s economy and polity are in perennial trouble, but its prime minister Silvio Berlusconi survives every blow....
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Published in: HomeBarack Obama, Muslims and Islamism
The United States president has put better relations with the Muslim world at the heart of his foreign policy. The...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: a tale of two electionsOlesia Oleshko, who monitored Ukraine’s 2004 election, compares that election with the one which has just brought...
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Published in: oDRUkraine: Yanukovych – president by default?Viktor Yanukovych was elected president not so much for his pro-Russian platform as because he was the only viable...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Mixed Constitution
A proposal for a modern mixed constitution with a randomly-selected Parliament
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Published in: 50.50Iran protests: what went wrong ?
In the wake of 22 Bahman and in the doldrums of anti-climax, the Iranian blogosphere is asking itself one question:...
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Published in: HomeBosnian voice, Yugoslavian memory
The sense of justice and consistency of principle of the Bosnian activist Mladen Grahovac should be a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBroken Government goes public
A new website is launched to map part of Britain's collapsing state
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Published in: openDemocracyUKConfessions of a Blairite spin doctorAs the BBC political correspondent, Nicholas Jones incurred Alastair Campbell’s enmity by objecting to his underhand...
