Having been rushed through parliament, the Coalition’s academies bill is a worrying example of just how familiar this ‘new politics’ can feel. Other than a handful of ‘community leaders’ and market fundamentalists, the only beneficiaries will be the private firms circling above.
After years of the Thatcherite free market rhetoric has The Spirit Level turned things round? Not surprisingly things are a little less clear-cut than the thesis put forward by the authors.
In theory, Russians can holiday abroad these days. In practice, most can't afford it. Still, there are the pleasures of summer days at the dacha. But what with falling water levels and paying beaches, things aren't what they used to be. It's hard work too, growing vegetables, grumbles Elena Streln
As Louisiana braces itself for Tropical Storm Bonnie, Jim Gabour reflects on the current mood in New Orleans.
More unites than divides Left and Right in the fierce debate on multiculturalism, argues Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt.
In their remote forest republic 400 miles east of the Moscow, the pagan Mari people are once again being harassed by the authorities. While the administrative lever used today is different — charges of “extremism” — their approach is more than reminiscent of the way their Soviet counterparts dealt
Keith Simpson has in the words of his own website issued ‘his famous Summer Reading List’. Simpson is Tory MP for Broadland, currently PPS to the Foreign Secretary, and has
Since the anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall last year there has been a renewed interest across Europe about the intellectual ferment of those years, with the publication of a host of previously untranslated writers. One such author is the Lithuanian Ricardas Gavelis. His Vilnius P
Call for artistic submissions for openDemocracy's next Discourses event, Subaltern voices, opening on October 7th.
Author Ian Buruma reflects on his recent book and delves into his findings on religion and its impact on democracy.
The challenge to platforms for gender equality comes not just from actors with fundamentalist agendas, but from a conjuncture where women’s rights have been opportunistically instrumentalized to serve geopolitical goals, and neo-liberal policies have severed social justice from gender equality con
Afghan civil society and NATO war aims: talk to the Taleban and all traditional leaders
