This year has been an important one for women’s rights in the UK. We’ve seen a number of high-profile male figures investigated for sexual abuse against young girls, so-called “lads mags” told to cover up objectifying images of naked women,...
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Despite recent difficulties the European Union is a great success. Many others in the Balkans, in Turkey and Eastern Europe still aspire to join us. Why should that be if it was the unmitigated failure portrayed by Europhobic politicians?
In the...
This year marked the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War of 1950-1953, but no peace treaty has ever been signed and the peninsula remains technically at war. Perhaps mindful of the impact of glasnost in the...
Who could disagree that a progressive development agenda provides an essential route to social justice? Certainly nobody participating in the Green Labour panel discussion on sustainable development and poverty reduction at the Fabian Summer Conference did, but there was a...
There is a debate beginning in the international community about what will replace the millennium development goals (MDGs) in 2015. Central to this debate is how to integrate sustainable development within the poverty reduction agenda embodied in the MDGs. It...
Last month, I had the pleasure to chair a session on Europe’s progressive ambitions at the Fabian Europe Conference. Many important points were made during this debate, so many that I often tend to forget about half of them, but...