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Optimism, pessimism and rationality, Katharine Hibbert

Next time you go to the shops or to work, will you be taking another step towards a happier, healthier and more environmentally sound future by encouraging ideas to lovingly procreate? Or will you be raping the world? It depends who you ask. Matt...

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Central Asia: the erupting volcano, Carlo Ungaro

In a recent Open Democracy article I attempted to draw attention to a situation which, by and large, had been ignored by the mainstream media. My contention was that the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, far from being havens of...

Read more »The Geert Wilders enigma , Cas Mudde

A striking fact about the general election in the Netherlands on 9 June 2010 was the difference of focus between the country itself and the rest of the world. As the Dutch themselves were still following the close race for first place between...

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All eyes on Neda , Peyvand Khorsandi

A year ago last Saturday on June 20, Neda Agha Soltan was killed in a street protest in Iran.

The other week, new footage of her death appeared, allowing us to gawp at her death from a new angle (possibly a year from now we can experience it in...

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Dangerous liaisons, Rahila Gupta

The heated public debate arising from Gita Sahgal’s departure from Amnesty reveals at least, in part, a nervousness to condemn and thereby weaken significant voices in civil society – especially those organisations that wield some clout with...

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A Defining Budget II: It is simply incredible to call this “fair”, Nick Pearce

The most important political lesson of the Coalition's Budget is its confirmation of the dominance of Conservative Centre-Right positions within the Coalition on economic and fiscal policy. We already knew from the negotiations that led to it,...

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