Since Stephen Lawrence died in London in 1993, the Institute of Race Relations has recorded 96 racist murders in Britain.
Ukraine and Georgia - two countries in a region undergoing dramatic change in the past two decades - can help Egypt examine the circumstances in which high aspirations do or do not lead to a successful transformation.
Islamic political narratives flourish in opposition but will suffer in the long term
The collapse of the USSR in 1991 led to historical reconsideration, but unlike in Germany or South Africa, there has been no 'truth and reconciliation' process in Russia, and many of its most shameful chapters are yet to be properly confronted. A museum set up at one of the most notorious Gulag ca
The coming months could leave an indelible mark not only on the very economic subsistence of many western states but also at a deeper level on an ancient philosophical debate between republicanism and liberalism.
We are at a point in the drugs policy debate now where it is no longer heretical to critique conventional wisdom; that is, to critique a policy which bears virtually zero relation to medical and sociological evidence. How many more women have to beaten, raped, or murdered before we finally see sen
No legitimate social contract can be devoid of stewardship, responsibility and duty. Recognising this allows us to assess both the historical significance of the democratic revolutionaries of our time, and the scale of the political challenge posed today by hypocrisy.
How are recent events in Iran to be interpreted? History has a lot to teach us, argues David Madden
"Opt-out" campaigns to counter strategies of the US military to gather information on potential recruits in high schools have had little impact. Other tactics have proven more effective.
Is diplomacy a large-scale, real-life version of the famous Milgram experiment on suffering, responsibility and authority? The reviewer of Carne Ross's ‘The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power And Change Politics in the 21st Century’ is convinced by the arguments
