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| Dark side of the mountain, Douglas Strang The Dark Mountain Project began life as a manifesto, published in 2009, by the writers Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth. In it they contend that we are living through a period of unavoidable decline and that the time has come to stop pretending... The ethnicisation of violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Madeleine Reeves
As a tense, anguished calm gathers in southern Kyrgyzstan, international news networks have been quick to settle on an explanation for the unprecedented violence of the last few days : an “inter-ethnic” conflict in which deep-seated national... 50.50 – equal but different: a reply to Ruth Rosen, Rosemary Bechler Congratulations to 50.50 writer, Ruth Rosen, for writing such a cogent piece about an important subject - the extent to which women’s sections or sections devoted to a gender perspective, such as 50.50, are being siphoned off into spaces where... Different pasts, shared future, Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith Monday 14th June Refugee Week was launched on Sunday with the Celebrating Sanctuary festival on the South Bank, with the theme Different pasts, shared future. It’s a welcome antidote to the relentless negativity from politicians and the media we... "They don't speak English": language, migration and cohesion, Vaughan Jones One of the most serious accusations posed against newcomers to the UK is that “they don’t speak English”. The English themselves are considerably advantaged in that theirs is the language of commerce, international politics and academia. The... Time to Call it a Day: Sometimes it is right for a country to recognise that its job is done, Tom Nairn The electoral success of the New Flemish Alliance has significantly increased the possibility of Belgium dividing into its two parts of Flanders and French speaking Wallonia, as described in a brilliant overview by Simon Jenkins, who expands the... | ||
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