By next year, the UK’s biggest broadcasting company, Sky (including Sky News), will be owned by a US media giant: Fox, Disney or Comcast (or perhaps two of them).
Laura Lee died on 7 February 2018. She was a leading activist who campaigned fearlessly for the decriminalisation of sex work in the UK.
Simone De Beauvoir and Gisele Halimi were indefatigable. They wrote to every responsible official in the judiciary, military and government – up to General de Gaulle. Lest we forget.
Whilst other businesses worry about Brexit, well-placed mining companies and politicians with ideas of 'Empire 2.0' seem to be gearing up to exploit it - with worrying repercussions for communities.
MPs vote for campaign donor transparency for Northern Ireland – but exclude all major recent donations.
“No more discipline, life’s magical” … has been singing in my head as I see colleagues laugh in the face of the absurd claims by the all-round absurdness that is university management.
Theresa May is trying to cover-up for her scandal-prone Northern Irish allies. MPs must call her bluff.
The populists’ new power game – in which Orbán is a more advanced player than Trump – is aimed at shaping the collective perception of the popular majority. It can go wrong.
“No one should read a great deal into what the minister was saying.”
Geir Lippestad defended Norway’s biggest mass murderer. Now, the former vice-mayor of Oslo discusses what’s he’s learned about how to combat hatred and create a ‘win-win’ for intercultural cities
Taking part in public life is a deeply affective process, at once personal and collective, and social media might just help us bridge the gap between the two.
Talking to Phil Wood, co-founder of the intercultural cities model, last November, about love of cities, intercultural city planning, innovative local government, human rights and ‘ordinary virtues’. Interview.
