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# The Week in 1 Minute: A series of strong stories (Aug 5 – 13 on openDemocracy)
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/week-in-1-minute-series-of-strong-stories-aug-5-13-on-opendemocracy/
- Published: 2013-08-04T23:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:30:42.000Z
- Description: The week is full of strong stories. Bruce Fireman discovers that the purchaser of radio stations in the UK has ties through its parent company to Nazi sympathizers. Peter Oborne and David Morrison ask why a BBC programme on Iranian nuclear capabilities and the potential for conflict is intent on i
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Where does security come from? [Ali Winston](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/20175baecd&ref=opendemocracy.net) sees no end in sight to the **military grip on US domestic law enforcement**, but we begin with Britain and Bahrain. [John Horne and John Lubbock](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/3e8f8fb900&ref=opendemocracy.net) track what happened when Britain’s Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner went to advise Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior in December 2011\. [Marc Owen Jones’s history](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/0084819a20&ref=opendemocracy.net) of **British involvement in Bahrain’s internal security** and [Ahmed Ali’s](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/657d757f52&ref=opendemocracy.net) report on holding its security sector to account, **set the Bahraini context**, while [Val Swain](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/db99702706&ref=opendemocracy.net) looks at the latest in **intelligence-led policing, UK-style**, and [Graham Ellison and Georgina Sinclair](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/97dd7b5b57&ref=opendemocracy.net) explore **‘entrepreneurial policing’** and the international export challenges. Don’t miss two short podcasts, and meanwhile, [Koos Couvee’s](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/b0562eab79&ref=opendemocracy.net) look at deaths in British police custody since 2004 has ‘gone viral’.  
  
There are rumbles of thunder throughout the Middle East with [Paul Rogers looking again at Al-Qaida](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/a71a953d1e&ref=opendemocracy.net); [Christopher K. Lamont](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/e565b378c1&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Giuseppe Merone](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/a0197a264d&ref=opendemocracy.net), sound the warning after **political assassinations in Tunisia**; [Khaled Hroub](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/9d330a2c48&ref=opendemocracy.net) warns of **the liberals’ dark chapter** in Egypt, while [Rishita Apsani](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/1c91ced165&ref=opendemocracy.net) looks at the impasse for women, [Adel Abdel Ghafar](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/9edcc75e16&ref=opendemocracy.net) at the **framing wars of June 30th**, and [Ahmad Alehossein](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/e040b70317&ref=opendemocracy.net) wonders if Iran’s Rouhani could meet **Morsi’s fate**; and in Turkey, [Burak Kadercan](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/85be7b80c6&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Ahu Yigit](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/f20d5cf83d&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Ayse Bugra](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/9f0a2b256b&ref=opendemocracy.net), in her in-depth account of what lies behind the protests, agree that **Gezi Park is not over**, but that all eyes are on the leader. [Steven Zyck](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/6bfb8e15b3&ref=opendemocracy.net) says the Al Qaida attacks in Yemen are the least of that country’s security crises; [Nicolai Due-Gundersen](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/eb9ca11b12&ref=opendemocracy.net) describes an argument brewing in Jordan, and [Rori Donaghy](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/31cd57bd45&ref=opendemocracy.net) tells of punishment for thought crime in the UAE. While a new generation of Palestinians, sceptical of the next peace talks, [contemplates a one-state solution](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/3bfcce8bb2&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Federica Marsi](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/77fdfd6b09&ref=opendemocracy.net) reports on teenagers charged with up to life imprisonment for stone throwing, and [Joyce Dalsheim](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/5d57f29267&ref=opendemocracy.net) takes such instances together with the Trayvon Martin trial, as the starting off point to ask **how we are complicit in the ‘banality of legal’**.  
  
As summer reaches London, we **consider dissent – oDRussia** [accompanies Alexei Navalny](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/2c9f772664&ref=opendemocracy.net) as his election campaign gets under way; [Rebecca Johnson](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/3f7bf5cb5b&ref=opendemocracy.net) for **50.50** unearths the evidence on Britain’s Trident debate; Saurabh Dube ponders the [unsettling artwork](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/fa00518d06&ref=opendemocracy.net) of dalit expressionist, Savindra Sawaker; Peter van Buren charts the culmination of [Guantanomo-ized justice](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/7c56747aec&ref=opendemocracy.net) in the Bradley Manning case; and [Stuart White](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/8ac1532be0&ref=opendemocracy.net) thinks through for us **what E.P.Thompson would have said about the dignity of dissent** missing from the UK’s Labour party. [Ayona Datta’s short film](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/419eadd48b&ref=opendemocracy.net) introduces us to wonderful people in Mumbai’s multicultural inner-city neighbourhood, surviving the race for global city status. [Henrietta L. Moore](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/377d9b7cf0&ref=opendemocracy.net) gives our [Transformation section](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/a1e4989a63&ref=opendemocracy.net) a luminescent piece on **the ethical imagination that inspires protest**. We sit back to think about [love 2.0](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/6c2ff8f476&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [marriage](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/6489a2b75d&ref=opendemocracy.net)… only to read about [what’s happening in Nigeria](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/fef4dcb236&ref=opendemocracy.net)… thank goodness for [Jim Gabour](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/34b826ad63&ref=opendemocracy.net) in **Sunday Comics**.  
  
**Don’t miss:**

- Daniel Levy on [Netanyahu hasn’t crossed the Rubicon](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/47736ef31a&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [Nilüfer Göle](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/4004e0353e&ref=opendemocracy.net) on [Public space democracy](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/cefae73056&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- A time-line map [of every nuclear explosion since 1945…](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/48584270da/v=LLCF7vPanrY&feature=youtu.be&ref=opendemocracy.net)

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The week is full of strong stories. [Bruce Fireman](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/9232ce3326&ref=opendemocracy.net) discovers that the purchaser of radio stations in the UK has ties through its parent company to **Nazi sympathizers**. [Peter Oborne and David Morrison](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/08bf0e2307&ref=opendemocracy.net) ask why a BBC programme on Iranian nuclear capabilities and the potential for conflict is intent on **ignoring the US intelligence consensus**. And [Jo Tyabji](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/6fbe25cbb6&ref=opendemocracy.net) launches a new worldwide series for **openSecurity**, [Whose Police?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/8cfce66917/7262321cfa/b2e864e082&ref=opendemocracy.net) asking: Do the police serve the public, or are they a force of elite control?