Turkey and Israel: ends and beginnings,
The states of Turkey and Israel have a lot in common, notwithstanding their many differences - in size, history, political background, social character, and religious composition:
After war, security,
The days since Barack Obama’s speech at the West Point military academy on 1 December 2009 have allowed the immediate response to the new United States strategy in Afghanistan to settle.
Sweden's changing,
“An interesting thing is that people here represent all parts of Sweden”, I hear myself say to the 17-year-old visitor at the biannual Social Democratic Party conference. We know each other from Tensta, a suburb of Stockholm. “It’s fun to...
The human cost of war ,
St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace is located in an old church, just off Bishopsgate, in the heart of the City of London. Outside men in suits hurry by, shouting into their mobile phones. To go into the Centre’s light and lofty...
The wedding dress with attitude,
Fatoumata and Moussa didn’t just decide to get married under Mali’s new family code, they got married in it – literally. The bride, groom and wedding guests at the September ceremony in Bamako all wore colourful traditional Malian boubous and...
The quest for gender-just peace: from impunity to accountability ,
War against women transcends conventional notions of war and peace. Yet, when war strikes, violence against women becomes heightened, generalized and the norm. Crimes against women have been extensively documented in recent conflicts where rape...
Straw strikes again,
He has stepped in to block the release of minutes from a cabinet meeting in 1997 on devolution saying that he believes their disclosure would put the convention of collective cabinet responsibility at "serious risk of harm". It follows the justice...
Parliament First,
All the old lags were there. It was a meeting at Portcullis House on the future of democracy in the UK and was so miserable that the peer sitting next to me muttered, "I am going to recruit the remnants of the Baader-Meinhof gang and assassinate...
The Economist sees the light (or is it the dark?),
The Economist's UK editor, who writes under the name of Bagehot, has just published an excellent column that qualifies him for membership of OurKingdom's growing network. It puts together all the big themes, from Iraq to the role of the...
Peaceful protest, no placards allowed,
Readers may be familiar with the case of Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who broke into dozens of computers in NASA and the US military in search of evidence of UFOs (which he claims to have found). US authorities are now seeking McKinnon's...
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