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Of fundamentalisms, secular and otherwise, R.Scott Appleby

The Task Force Report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy called for greater "religious literacy" across the "whole of government" and greater levels of...


After Labour's leadership election I: The role of trade unions , Mike Rustin

The trade unions will have an important part to play in revitalising the Labour party as a grass-roots movement and opposing the Coalition's spending cuts. But their role in Labour's leadership election, and the attack on this by the...


The Left and the Big Society VI: Rachael Maskell of Unite, Rachael Maskell

How will the left respond to the clear challenge of the Conservatives' Big Society project? Niki Seth Smith is asking the leading people and institutions on the left how they view the idea, as part of OK's debate on the Challenge of the...


Bribe-and-tell , Nilanjana Bhowmick

My father pays a bribe every month. He is a teacher in a government-supported school. The school clerk needs to collect the cheque for the staff salary from the District Education Office. The officials there invariably ask for 2 to 5% of the total...


At last regional news is sexy!, Lis Howell

Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport will be speaking about local news at the Royal Television Society tomorrow. Jeremy made local news into news by killing the potentially subsidised local ‘Independently Funded...


Chechnya: choked by headscarves , Tanya Lokshina

“Even in the 90s at the time of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria it wasn’t as bad as it is now. After all I didn’t wear a headscarf then and, though the keepers of public morals would sometimes pounce on you, they kept their hands to...

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