We often think of the Refugees Welcome culture as a ‘European’ phenomenon, but an exchange between German and Israeli civil society shows the value of turning our eyes outwards towards global examples of solidarity and support.
Neither the MENA governments nor the international community can afford to let the region’s young down. It is time to effect change to give MENA youth what they really need to succeed: jobs above all else.
Did Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party do the checks the law requires of it before accepting a vast donation for its Brexit campaign?
We still don’t know how key Leave campaign adverts were funded, but the one man who has been named has some surprising relationships...
In the UK, there is no specific offence for 'domestic violence'. Is the law failing women seeking justice?
Can education, notions of deliberative democracy and intercultural integration come together to rescue our dysfunctional democracies?
Basically, political decision-making should not be win-or-lose, as facilitated by the most ancient, primitive, divisive and inaccurate measure of collective opinion ever invented.
A personal reflection on nine years of beleaguered independence.
“It cannot be right, that people can grow up and go to school and hardly ever come into meaningful contact with people from other backgrounds and faiths.” David Cameron, July 2015.
Does an 11 year old who has been told they have failed seem to you like someone who is really going to rally behind learning?
Education – combined with technologies – seems to have triggered a sea-change in the contract between government and those who are governed.
