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Khodorkovsky trial: a regime in the dock, Andrei Kolesnikov From Gaza to Eliat and back: one man's dangerous adventure, Omar Ghraieb The London bombs, five years on: a digest, David Hayes Productivity does not explain wage differentials, Tim Bending Migration: playing the numbers game, Alasdair Murray Getting public service broadcasting reviews "just right", Richard Collins Financial Crisis and its representations, Anthony Faramelli
Khodorkovsky trial: a regime in the dock, Andrei Kolesnikov Russians don’t know what to think about the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They instinctively feel it affects everyone in Russia, but most people have difficulty answering sociologists’ questions about it. The most recent Levada Center survey is... Read more » From Gaza to Eliat and back: one man's dangerous adventure, Omar Ghraieb MK lives in a small bungalow in Gaza, the sole breadwinner of a family of seven small children. Five months ago, despairing at the poverty and frustration of the family’s beleagured life, he finally decided to escape from Gaza in the hope of being... Read more » The London bombs, five years on: a digest, David Hayes What was always half-expected still came as a visceral shock. A series of explosions on three underground trains and a double-decker bus during London’s morning rush-houron 7 July 2005 left fifty-two people dead (as well as the four attackers... Read more » Productivity does not explain wage differentials, Tim Bending Recently on Open Democracy, William Davies described how the concept of fairness has been decoupled from issues of class and power in the UK. New Labour's innovation had been to find a way to pursue something called fairness, yet simultaneously... Read more » Migration: playing the numbers game, Alasdair Murray The UK’s coalition government has wasted little time in getting to work on its flagship immigration policy – a cap on non-EU economic migrant numbers. The government has already introduced an interim cap, which should result in a small fall in... Read more » Getting public service broadcasting reviews "just right", Richard Collins Too much, too little or just right? Goldilocks posed this question in respect of the temperature of the bears’ plates of porridge. She was fortunate enough to find that, among the options on the table, there was one which was “just right”. But... Read more » Financial Crisis and its representations, Anthony Faramelli There are a few moments during a crisis when a people’s façade breaks away and admissions of cold and brutal truth are made. Such an occurrence happened in 2008 during the melt-down of the global financial system when Alan Greenspan was called to... Read more »