CEDAW is not just a wish list from which politicians in the UK can ‘pick-n-mix’ when drawing up their shopping lists of “things to do about women”. Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith argues that in the run up to the general election it is an instrument we can use to call our politicians to account.
Discounting the interests of future people is the one remaining prejudice
Policy think tanks expend much energy hunting for media profile, but it is extremely rare that they ever have it thrust upon them. In this respect, the launch of Phillip
In October Tony Curzon Price and Thomas Ash replied to Peter Johnson's piece presenting Karl-Heinz Brodbeck’s critique of the utilitarian defence of the charging of interest. Here, Peter Johnson argues that they approached the question from quite different angles and offers to set down a few thoug
I went to the launch of Phillip Blond’s ResPublica think tank and had a parallel but very different shock to Guy Aitchison at the London Citizens at the Barbican.
Kevin Rudd’s apology to the 'Forgotten Australians' highlights the difficulties of dealing with Britain's imperial past while promoting a positive view of 'Britishness'
Following oppression under the rule of Sadam Hussein, Iraqi's Isamists appeared set to take centre stage in the country's politics. Six years on, the popularity of Islamism is fragile, and the secular nationalism once espoused by the Ba'athists is again in resurgence.
In a recent article for Foreign Policy, "Take me Back to Constantinople", Edward Luttwak suggested that America should adopt a 'Byzantine' approach to modern foreign policy. Judith Herrin welcomes this change in tone towards the much-maligned medieval power, but feels that it is perhaps too late t
openSecurity's editor explores the themes of openness and security in an introduction to the new section.
The fashion for Turing-inspired physicalism and functionalism in the philosophy of mind denies the existence of the other, which Emmanuel Levinas and Timothy Sprigge put at the center of understanding the human condition
