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Delegation to Berlin, John Hoyland Clare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the web, Anthony Barnett Documents at odds: the UK’s national security review, Mary Kaldor Nuclear terrorism: should the UK be concerned?, Matthew Cottee and Matthew Moran Russia and Georgia: the Circassian question , Sufian Zhemukhov oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 8th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss Obama reaches out to Muslims on visit to Indonesia, Rukeyya Khan Health for all 'whatever their need or background’, Hiranthi Jayaweera Triple vulnerability: the lives of Britain's undocumented migrant children, Nando Sigona Talk of "localism" is a sham without real constitutional power to local government, Stuart Weir Search openDemocracy
Delegation to Berlin, John Hoyland Introduction "LABOUR MP MEETS ATOM SPY FUCHS IN SECRET" shouted the newspaper headline. The year was 1961. Six weeks earlier, the East Germans had suddenly built the Berlin Wall, plunging the world into some of the darkest and most... Read more » Clare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the web, Anthony Barnett Clare Sambrook has just won the Bevins Prize for Investigative Journalism, as well as scooping up the Paul Foot Award last week, both of them for her stories exposing the scandal of child detention in Britain. It is a terrific recognition of her and... Read more » Documents at odds: the UK’s national security review, Mary Kaldor On October 18 and 19, the Coalition government published two documents: A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The New National Security Strategyand Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategy Defence and Security Review, hereafter... Read more » Nuclear terrorism: should the UK be concerned?, Matthew Cottee and Matthew Moran A recent article published in a national newspaper revealed the key details of a successful sting operation carried out by Georgian counter-proliferation specialists. The incident, which took place in March of this year, saw two Armenians, a... Read more » Russia and Georgia: the Circassian question , Sufian Zhemukhov There have been many fluctuations in Russian-Georgian relations, but before August 2008 one constant in this relationship was the attitude toward Georgia’s territorial integrity. In 1990-91, when Georgia took its first official steps toward... Read more » oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 8th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss Who’s Addicted to the War on Drugs – Tuesday 16th November, King’s Cross, London FREE EVENT, LONDON We warmly invite readers to join openDemocracy author Charles Shaw and film maker Roger Graef to discuss An evening of... Read more » Obama reaches out to Muslims on visit to Indonesia, Rukeyya Khan US President Barack Obama met with Indonesian President Susilo Bamband Yudhoyono on Tuesday in the second leg of his ten day trip in Asia. At a joint news conference with President Yudhoyono, Obama reaffirmed his commitment to ending the... Read more » Health for all 'whatever their need or background’, Hiranthi Jayaweera In recent decades there have been significant changes in the size and composition of the migrant population in the UK with people from anincreasingly diverse range of countries, nationalities, and different legal immigration statuses living in... Read more » Triple vulnerability: the lives of Britain's undocumented migrant children, Nando Sigona Sarah is twenty one. Originally from Jamaica, she moved to the UK when she was twelve after her father died. She came to the UK to reunite with a much older step-sister who she hardly knew. Adapting to life in Britain and to the rules of her new... Read more » Talk of "localism" is a sham without real constitutional power to local government, Stuart Weir All three UK political parties talk of "localism", but this is meaningless so long as local government lacks proper constitutional power and independence. Both coalition partners and the Labour party proclaim their allegiance to "localism", but in... Read more »