The ‘new ruins’ – poorly designed and shoddy shopping malls and mass-produced housing – are ubiquitous throughout our cities. Ken Worpole finds that Owen Hatherley is a witty and erudite gazetteer of terrible mistakes, but wonders if the acerbic author is as fair as he could be
Russian human rights activists routinely put themselves in danger’s way, but are largely unappreciated and mistrusted by their compatriots. In times of despair, Anna Sevortian is brought back to one thing: idealism.
The contest between rival “Soviet” and “European” discourses fuels a dead-end debate about Belarus’s elusive national identity. It is time instead - whoever wins the presidential election on 19 December 2010 - to change the question, and find what Belarusians have in common. A shared archetype is
An all-party proposal to replace the House of Lords is about to appear. The word is that they will call for an elected chamber to be called...' The Senate'. How unoriginal can you be?
Some surprising conclusions emerge from looking more closely at the message sent by voters in the US mid-term elections. This is a report on the results of an election day poll commissioned from Greenberg Rosner Associates by the Campaign for America’s Future and Democracy Corps.
Judgmental journalism directed at members of parliament is an orchestrated form of ‘mob-justice’ in the Netherlands today. Self-appointed media watchdogs present a bigger danger to society than the persons they pursue
It's all go at OurKingdom even though it is not yet showing up on the page. Guy Aitchison has started his PhD at UCL and is now taking
If a man desires to walk along the coast of a region such as Liguria, a thin, long strip of hills on the Mediterranean, most of it is private and it is quite impossible to go and look at the sea.
The British Deputy Prime Minister gave the Hugo Young lecture in London last night setting out how new progressives differ from old progressives. It was followed by a question and answer session.
A political philosopher sees Lib Dem leader and the Coalition Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's praise of social mobility as the lodestone of liberalism as a fast-one of a different kind.
The key to understanding why market economies have outperformed planned societies is not recognition of the ubiquity of greed, but understanding of the power of disciplined pluralism. (This article is part of an IPPR series more of which can be read here)
