Home / Members-only / Italy – not all doom and gloom “Crimes reported in 2017 are down by more than 10 percent compared to 2016, while murders have almost halved in ten years, from 611 to 343. Despite this, there is a general sense of insecurity." By Alessio Colonnelli / 27 Aug 2019
Opinion / Members-only / “Diversity: The BBC may fool itself but it won’t fool the Lords” Problems arising from the BBC’s lack of diversity among its programme-makers remain, despite all the BBC initiatives over the past 19 years. By Simon Albury / 20 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / The Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticed Pollsters and broadcasters mustn’t allow themselves to become accomplices to propaganda selling a false version of the 'will of the people'. By Steve Barnett / 14 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / Leaks, hacks, and scandals: a conversation with Tarek El-Ariss On the radical transformations affecting Arab culture in the digital age. By Tugrul Mende / 14 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / Beers for Spain and Instagram: VOX and the youth vote VOX knows how important young people are for their political goals so they cherish and pamper their junior supporters. By Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero / 6 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / Going back somewhere: nostalgia and the radical right The electorate are engaged at some level in a fictive transaction, where we know that what we intend to buy is indeed a counterfeit. By David Barnes / 6 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / Trump and Johnson: two sides of the same coin It will no longer suffice to be shocked and numbed by the outrageousness of these two men’s words. By Annie-Marie Gergi / 6 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / Political triplets of New Democracy The three leaders play stellar roles in an absurd political play with a gigantic setting in which things were never what they seemed. By L.K. Sharma / 5 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / Torn: defaced posters and silent dissent in Egypt The remains of eyes and ears evoke a strong metaphor in a city haunted by constant state surveillance. By Nura Adam / 2 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / Drawing the right lessons from the Roma Holocaust How can we break the cycle of the centuries-long rejection of Roma ? By Dunja Mijatović / 1 Aug 2019
Home / Members-only / The Kremlin is pushing for a “sovereign internet”. But at what cost? As Russia’s moves towards a “sovereign internet” gather speed, Russia’s IT sector is weighing up the cost of isolation. By Liliia Zemnukhova / 30 Jul 2019