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The Exile Nation Project - Allison T. Moore, Charles Shaw 30 May 2012 | 11:55 pm
Allison Moore was once labelled a "habitual offender" by the State of Pennsylvania for receiving seven convictions for theft, fraud and forgery. Having reformed her life, she now works as an author an...
G4S asylum housing, the evictions begin: mother and baby dumped in substandard flat, John Grayson 30 May 2012 | 09:19 pm
The UK Border Agency gave a £30 million contract for housing asylum seekers to G4S, the world's biggest security company. Now vulnerable people are losing their homes. On Tuesday 8 May a Bradford asy...
Radio 4's Today programme is just an old boys' club, Elinor Davies 30 May 2012 | 05:03 pm
The smug atmosphere on Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme is indicative of entrenched elitism, argues Eli Davies Like many people, I tune into the Today programme most weekday morn...
Can disruptive policy create a sustainable finance system?, Chris Hewett 30 May 2012 | 12:38 pm
The ideas for creating a new and sustainable finance system are out there. If this thinking doesn't get greater exposure to policy makers and the media, the world of finance will remain a barrier to s...
Syria beyond conflict: the economic test , Jihad Yazigi 30 May 2012 | 03:51 am
The bitter divisions in Syria both reflect and intensify the grave, long-term economic challenges that must be met if the country is to have a viable future, says Jihad Yazigi The geography of the Sy...
Liberty's wings will get badly burnt by "Flame", Tony Curzon Price 29 May 2012 | 07:36 pm
The "Flame" worm is a reminder just how fragile is the digital space of freedom that we have known. I used to think that the dire warnings from Jonathan Zittrain of an end to generativity and network ...
Lines in shifting sands: Russia’s response to the Syrian uprising, Margot Light 29 May 2012 | 07:25 pm
Russian policy in the Middle East has been largely driven by pragmatic calculations of trade and geopolitical influence, in direct opposition to notions of liberal interventionalism and the ‘Arab Spri...
The Alabama syndrome, José Ignacio Torreblanca 29 May 2012 | 01:28 am
The European Union is not the United States; Germany is not Massachusetts; and Greece is not Alabama, more’s the pity. Have you ever heard an American suggest that the poor southern states ought to l...
The death of the indignados movement, Marina Prentoulis and Lasse Thomassen 28 May 2012 | 09:24 pm
The indignados movement is dead and Spain is back to the traditional political management of demands and interests. The language of protest needs another restructuring. In May last year, Spanish peop...
Some people, Mr Cameron - the Murdochs and a Satanic deal, Anthony Barnett 28 May 2012 | 05:40 pm
Cameron has again denied any 'great conspiracy' between the British government and the Murdochs, despite accusations by 'Some People'. Anthony Barnett, who counts himself in this group, sets out why t...
