Когда в страну приходят танки, они не останавливаются на главной площади - они катятся дальше, прямиком в спальни и будуары мирных граждан. Пражская весна смела утопические идеи о любви - поставив на место мечты смирение. English
In Paris, by trying to lift off ‘planet summit’, its gravity became truly noticeable for the first time.
The oppression and exploitation of mining communities means that even within our democracy, the legacy of the apartheid and colonial era mining regimes continues.
In votes for Brexit, and in Trump, we are hearing an indivisible claim for a national, ethnic, gender and class identity. But the claim emerges not from pride, but from shame.
Egyptian nationalism, as an ideology nurtured by the military elites and embraced by the middle class, marginalizes the mass of Egyptians.
The descent into complex post-factual politics goes some way to showing why Brexit and Trump were so successful, and their opposition so ineffective.
Walter Benjamin’s observation that every rise of fascism bears witness to a failed revolution speaks poignantly to our current condition.
Following my initial surprise, my first reaction, as always when I encounter the rhetorically inclusive “we”, was to wonder who they might be; was I now part of this “we” ?
May's not the only one trying to have it both ways. Before Trump’s election, the US, long-heralded (and self-celebrating) “nation of immigrants,” was lowering the lamp beside its golden door.
For the forgotten children of the refugee crisis, school brings a transient normality to life in the camps.
Human rights defenders are out in the cold at this moment: we have compromised allies on the left and the right.
