With a victory of the ruling Barisan Nasional, it was tempting to write off the results of this Sunday's election as another missed opportunity to reform Malaysia's chronic status quo. Yet, the patterns of change are already there: one only needs to recognize them.
Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement is not the antithesis to politics, nor is it the end of democracy; on the contrary, it demonstrates that activism in Italy is alive and kicking.
The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski’s latest movie is a well-crafted and well-acted thriller adapted from a book by Robert Harris, with a political twist that might even give Gordon Brown an extra shiver on the eve of the general election
Since 11 September 2001, western states have started a complex process of technological restyling of their systems of control and crime prevention. It's a process that exploits advanced
Since the spread of the internet in the mid-nineties, privacy concerns have increased exponentially. Cyberspace has often been equated to Jeremy Benthams Panopticon, or to a new, digital version
