Could Greece, through democratic elections, become for Turkey what Tunisia became for Egypt in 2011 through mass protests?
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.”
In the end though, this will all probably lead mainly to more fragmentation, which will make fundamental change even more unlikely.
The election is vital because at stake are two broader EU problems: the absence of a right to organise substantive opposition, and the de-democratisation of political decision-making.
Perhaps it is not the Muslim communities of France that must change, so much as the notion of laïcité.
The ‘Greek story’ simply diverts attention from the real task ahead which is the correction of the serious ‘design faults’ of the monetary union in Europe.
A role not mentioned so far in the obituaries. In memoriam.
A journalist's salute to a man who was more than a writer. In memoriam.
