Could Greece, through democratic elections, become for Turkey what Tunisia became for Egypt in 2011 through mass protests?
As the new government’s statement on Mariupol reveals, Greece will leverage its position along a geopolitical fault-line to maximise its bargaining power.
While the English language is gifted with many great poets, William Blake was alone in writing so simply, and so powerfully, and so unforgettably. Now a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum is celebrating his visual and literary work in tandem.
Mutual recognition between people and cultures moves in mysterious ways, the cartoon its Rorschach test.
In fact, the removal of the ‘duty to promote community cohesion’ in schools from the UK's Ofsted inspection regime sent a very clear signal.
Perhaps paradoxically, Greece’s real problem is primarily political, not economic, and its name is “populism.”
The crisis facing Europe could be perceived as a product of conflicting class interests in what Keynes called the capitalism of the casino. All the more important that it should instead be blamed on conveniently stigmatised Others.
Why should Australia acknowledge its bloody past on Australia Day? Firstly, this is a fundamental question of dignity.
Perhaps it is not the Muslim communities of France that must change, so much as the notion of laïcité.
A role not mentioned so far in the obituaries. In memoriam.
