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Is the EU too big to be democratic?, Peter Baldwin South Sudan: waiting for January, Tristan McConnell First past the post - the view from New Zealand, Tan Copsey Kyrgyzstan’s angel of death, Sureyya Yigit Bomb blast kills five in Istanbul, Patricia Rich What does the UK budget mean?, Tony Curzon Price Book Review: Anderson's Europe, Andrew Blick
Is the EU too big to be democratic?, Peter Baldwin Back in the days – let’s say 1932 just to pick a moment – when European politics were really polarized, the spectrum ran from Moscow-faithful communists at one extreme all the way to monarchists and fascists. During the same time, the US... Read more » South Sudan: waiting for January, Tristan McConnell The young woman with the glaring eyes, high cheekbones and smooth skin thinks she might be 25-years old, after all the eldest of her six children is 10-ish. She thinks she came to this place – a clearing of stick-walled grass-roofed huts two days... Read more » First past the post - the view from New Zealand, Tan Copsey Like many readers of this website I’ve spent a lot of time discussing electoral reform lately. As an Anglo-New Zealander I’m in a position to add something slightly unusual to these debates. I’ve now voted in First Past the Post parliamentary... Read more » Kyrgyzstan’s angel of death, Sureyya Yigit The angel of death has set up camp in Kyrgyzstan. Its breath can be felt on your neck outside the presidential White House in the capital Bishkek, where ninety-five people died in the uprising against Kurmanbek Bakiyev on 7 April 2010. Since... Read more » Bomb blast kills five in Istanbul, Patricia Rich A road-side bomb in Istanbul has killed five people, including an eighteen-year-old girl and injured twelve others, as a bus carrying military personnel passed by this morning. Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, many... Read more » What does the UK budget mean?, Tony Curzon Price There are three big questions about the budget: is it good to cut the deficit so much and so soon? assuming so - for the sake of it - how much ideology is there in the nature of the deficit cuts? how much simple tactical politics is there in... Read more » Book Review: Anderson's Europe, Andrew Blick Perry Anderson, The New Old World, Verso £24.99 The European Union is the most successful of experiments in supranational governance. It has made greater progress towards genuine sovereignty sharing than any other equivalent body; and has spawned... Read more »