There is a responsibility on those working in Scots to use the language imaginatively, and to break it into new political possibilities.
The elections have been widely interpreted as a revitalization of parliamentary politics in Turkey. Yet a paralyzed parliament's inability to tackle key issues may prove the undoing of opposition promises of change.
The really important issue for AKP is to come to a decision about party policy. Do they endorse the Erdoğan style of "making politics"?
I would vote yes as I do not want my objections to the way the crisis has been managed at home and in Brussels to be usurped by politicians that dream that they can give the Union a bloody nose by destroying the Eurozone.
A plea for the poetic inspiration and vision needed to counter despair, complacency, repression and extremism.
On July 3-4, the LSE will jointly host a seminar with openDemocracy on the impact of the movements in the squares from 2011 onwards. Do they contribute to the democratic renewal of our democracies and if so how? A conversation.
The political future of the region is unclear, because it depends on the evolution of different political systems. What degree of secularisation/Islamism will these societies allow?
It seems that the accusations of hypocrisy towards western actors, often heard in the Arab world, are not completely wrong.
Opposition to the direction of the Eurozone can be expressed through national democracies, for example through the election of Syriza, but this is now an inadequate form of political representation.
On the eighth anniversary of her death, we remember the legacy of Iraq's uncrowned queen of poetry, Nazik Al-Mala'ika.
Racism and Islamophobia are driven by the practices of the powerful. Self-proclaimed 'liberals' need to know this.
