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America and the world’s jungle, Paul Rogers Democratise or Die: The status quo is not an option for Labour, Jeremy Gilbert Children in care: the Russian orphan industry, Boris Altshuler Britain's compromise revolution, David Hayes Where is Facebook’s privacy taking its users?, Jim Killock What's that smell?, Guy Aitchison An Open Letter to Barack Obama, Avi Shlaim Children in prison, Mary McAuley Colombia's elections: corruption or legality?, Jose-Manuel Barreto Ending the Gaza blockade, Muriel Asseburg
America and the world’s jungle, Paul Rogers An early decision of Bill Clinton after he became president in January 1993 was the appointment of R James Woolsey as director of the CIA. At his Senate confirmation hearings, Woolsey was asked how he would to characterise the current era, following... Read more » Democratise or Die: The status quo is not an option for Labour, Jeremy Gilbert There is one key reason why we now find ourselves in a new political era; one aspect of the election result which few predicted and which has decisively prevented it from being a re-run of 1979 and 1997. That is the surprising robustness of the... Read more » Children in care: the Russian orphan industry, Boris Altshuler The machine for “supplying” orphanages with new children is tightly bound up in existing federal legislation, whose main aim is to remove children from parents who are mistreating them. The introduction of juvenile justice, or the... Read more » Britain's compromise revolution, David Hayes Something happened in British politics in the days after the general election of 6 May 2010 that will generate books, theses, conferences and public argument for years to come. By any routine standards of democratic procedure, its narrative heart... Read more » Where is Facebook’s privacy taking its users?, Jim Killock Facebook seems extraordinarily prone to annoying its users, people like you and me. Multiple interface changes, behavioural advertising, problems with data and third party apps; terms and conditions claiming extraordinary rights over your... Read more » What's that smell?, Guy Aitchison The Dissolution Honours List has been published and the stench of hypocrisy and corruption is almost too much to bear. Just when you thought you'd seen the last of them, zombie-like the disreputable cronies and party hacks return to take their... Read more » An Open Letter to Barack Obama, Avi Shlaim Dear President Obama, On 16 May, Noam Chomsky, the renowned Jewish-American academic, was prevented by Israeli officials from entering the West Bank to deliver a lecture at Birzeit University near Ramallah. He came from Jordan across the Allenby... Read more » Children in prison, Mary McAuley In Russia, where the age of criminal responsibility is 14 for serious and 16 for less serious crimes, far more children are detained than in the rest of Europe Differences and similarities A group of Russian prison governors is... Read more » Colombia's elections: corruption or legality?, Jose-Manuel Barreto Colombia is about to vote for a new government on May 30. Campaigning began early this year when the political parties with ties to President Uribe won most seats in the Congress. A triumph in the presidential elections was then very likely for... Read more » Ending the Gaza blockade, Muriel Asseburg Proximity peace talks between Israel and the Ramallah based Palestinian Authority (PA) have started. However it is rather improbable that these talks will develop into a serious peace process leading to a two-state settlement in the foreseeable... Read more »