The wave of popular uprisings that has driven out Presidents Ben Ali of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt and is shaking other countries in the Middle East - could it swamp Pakistan?
It is time for coalitions and collaboration in the UK. These must be strong in order to build an alternative, people-centred vision for how the country should be governed. Here, the author of 'Power in Coalition' identifies four lessons from outside the UK on building successful coalitions.
One way of assessing the prospects for democracy in the Middle East is to compare this region not only with eastern Europe in the late 1980s but also with southern Europe in the mid-1970s, where aged authoritarian regimes gave way to young democracies.
In the end the prospects for democracy depend on whether the rebels can mobilise support politically throughout Libya. The problem with the military approach is that it entrenches division. Our preoccupation with classic military means is undermining our capacity to address growing insecurity.
How do we pass moral judgment over the use of political violence? What of situations that lack a basic strategy, as on London's March for the Alternative? Paul Sagar regrets the violence last Saturday, but tempers his judgment with an understanding of the underlying reasons.
A comic duo in the Eurovision, a new hymn against high-qualified slave labour and a Facebook protest on March 12, brought back the dormant spirit of revolution to the streets of Lisbon.
Are the 'No' to AV campaign in the forthcoming British referendum gaining the upper hand thanks to ruthless negative adverts?
Once upon a time we had a powerful left which shaped a large part of 20th century Scotland. What has happened to this politics, idealism and radicalism today, and what do we do without it?
