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Published in: 50.50This powerful one-woman play shows how "black revolutionaries don't just drop from the moon"With poetry, music and dance, the new play Woke stages the personal, political awakenings of Assata Shakur and a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Over the worst in Europe: the 2010s have not ended like the 1930sA resurgent “Europe of citizens” has fended off the challenge from the “Europe of Fatherlands”. What remains now is...
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Published in: HomePreventing radical right extremism requires honesty, empathy and a whole society approach. Are we doomed to fail?We need to empathise with those we fundamentally disagree with. Is society ready for that?
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Published in: HomeBrazil’s conservative revolutionNow it is Bolsonaro’s turn to shut down courses in philosophy and sociology, ostensibly to privilege "areas that...
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Published in: 50.50The war on Europe’s women and LGBTIQ people has only just begunThe far right did not conquer the European Parliament – but this doesn’t mean the threats to our rights have...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Content moderation and censorship: can we handle a double standard?If we get it right, machine-learning could be useful in identifying hateful networks and building a complete picture...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Triple threat to transparency: a Brexit StoryAny discussion of propaganda and the 2016 European referendum starts with years of Euromythology and migrant-bashing.
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Published in: HomeIndian elections: it wasn’t the economy, stupid!The people accepted electoral authoritarianism for their security. This neutralised warnings by intellectuals and...
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Published in: 50.50Europe's far-right bid to take back 'Christian Europe'Focus on Russian 'interference' risks ignoring the growing role of American religious conservatives in fuelling the...
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Published in: HomeSalvini is escalating war on Italy’s Roma community by deploying soldiersSending troops to vulnerable camps is feeding anti-Roma sentiment and emboldening the far right.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Thoughts for my fascist brother in the North of Italy“Far from rejecting the ‘establishment’ they criticize, the League has always represented the interests of corporate...
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Published in: 50.50“Solidarity is in the air”: Meet the bold, young women challenging Europe’s far right across bordersIn March, I travelled from London to Verona, Italy to join a historic protest for women’s and LGBTIQ rights – while...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Perceptions of Jews or perceptions of antisemitism?“I’m not neutral in this debate, as I’m an anti-Zionist diasporic Israeli Jew most of whose family have been...
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Published in: 50.50Is your prosecco funding the far right?British restaurant critic Jay Rayner slams leading prosecco firm for sponsoring coalition of ‘racists, bigots and...
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Published in: 50.50Prosecco firm slammed for sponsoring summit of ‘racists, bigots and ultra nationalists’British restaurant critic and LGBT rights campaigners call for boycott over support for recent gathering of US,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?PNL and ‘European Others’How France’s most successful rappers set about countering Europe's hegemonic narratives.
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Published in: 50.50Hundreds of Europeans ‘criminalised’ for helping migrants – as far right aims to win big in European electionsElderly women, priests and firefighters among those arrested, charged or ‘harassed’ by police for supporting...
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Published in: ourNHSHow NHS staff are fighting back against the ‘hostile environment’The Daily Mail's claims of our success are sadly premature - but the "patients not passports" campaign is indeed growing.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDon’t feed the Farage trollsAs I’ve learned in the European Parliament, publicly debating with Farage and his bad-cop UKIP outliers often merely...
