The unholy alliance
Should political extremes ever join forces? Twenty-eight years ago, almost to the day, Mayor William H Hudnut (the third) of Indianapolis signed into law the Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance. Had it not been struck down by the courts, it would have defined certain kinds of pornography as a civil rights violation against women. This was [...]
Francois Hollande has promised a new economic direction in France, but he’ll struggle to bring about radical change in Europe… President François Hollande’s call for a new growth-led approach has resonated with many people across Europe who continue to suffer from a seemingly endless cycle of economic decline and painful public sector cuts. Nobel prize-winning [...]
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Is Europe’s problem German strength or weakness? The election in March 2012 of Joachim Gauck as Germany’s President demonstrates a remarkable achievement of recent German history. For the first time since unification in October 1990, Germany has a Chancellor and President from the former East Germany. Widely admired both for the size of its [...]
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Time may be running out for millions of ‘food insecure’ people in Africa’s Sahel region… Whilst the threat of war in Sudan is making headlines worldwide at the moment, it is important to remember the other major crisis that has seen little coverage in the mainstream media: The food crisis in West Africa’s [...]
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How a blasphemy conviction is a worrying sign for Tunisia’s revolution… Nabil Karoui, owner-manager of Tunisia’s Nessma TV, was recently convicted on charges of blasphemy for broadcasting the animated film Persepolis. Persepolis is based on the celebrated graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi which relates her life growing up in post-revolutionary Iran. The October [...]
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Why is the Right so obsessed with the notion that incentives are the answer to all our problems? It started with market-led interventions in education. Lower socio-economic groups both underperform educationally and are underrepresented in the best schools. A Conservative solution? Expand the academy and the free schools programs. Why? Because, as they [...]
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Is the auctioning of university places fundamentally wrong? “Access to higher education should never be based on the ability to pay,” declares a government official in the build-up to a major election; desperately hiding his private-school history at Eton. It’s something everyone wants to hear – but is it really true? Once we [...]
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The domestic situation in South Sudan could be just as dangerous as the threat of war… The prospects of war between South Sudan and its northern neighbour have recently become less a likelihood, and more a certainty. Sudan’s leader, President Bashir (wanted by the UN for war crimes), always assumed that once the [...]
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