The recent Windrush migration scandal poignantly illustrated the tensions between people’s sense of belonging to a country, societal recognition of that belonging, and legal status and access to social rights.
Ravish Kumar has recorded the Republic of Fear for posterity. These are the heroes of World Press Freedom Day.
The concept of the precariat has explanatory power day-to-day and transformative potential in the socio-political world. For a just and honorable life, we need the political precariat.
An opaque process of separating the ‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where only seven and a half thousand out of one million people have national verification cards.
“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation in the public sphere.”
Some 5,000 participants from government, business and civil society have arrived for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The central theme of the deliberations is ‘Towards a Common Future’.
Joining forces demands a democratic renewal that will dig deep into our cultures and our nations.
So, what is the right measure of passion in politics that is good for the health of democracy? There has to be a right balance.
One cynic says that after every election, the new Government can spend its first year in uninstalling the statutes erected by the previous regime.
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland, researcher Marilyn Mayo in the US, and Akanksha Mehta at the University of Sussex.
