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Published in:Can Europe Make It?Dismantling democracy – the right to be entertainedIt is not enough any more to call populists names. Calling them fascists has ceased to make any impression on many...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?The unique experience of St NazaireFrance will be hit hard for its loyalty to the resource-guzzling monsters of modern industrialism.
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Published in:ourEconomyHow big polluters are profiting from European public aidThe EU recovery programme is at odds with its planned European Green Deal.
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Published in:HomeSplinters: June – short essays on the here & nowThis month: Whatever happened to Dunkirk spirit?...SLIMY KNOWLEDGE... Endgame?... The Fire of Moscow.
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?: OpinionAchille Mbembe and the fantasy of separationThe latest German uproar exposes a core cleavage in Holocaust memory.
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Published in:Pandemic BordersThe Italian Chinatown that can teach us about resilienceThe city of Prato shows how community resilience can counter both the spread of the virus and the spread of racism...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe radical right is exploiting a Swedish teen’s murderThe tale concocted about Tommie Lindh’s death has become an excuse to target minorities, particularly Muslims, with violence.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNumber 10 must lift briefing ban on openDemocracy, says European press freedom watchdogGovernment accused of attempting to “isolate and punish critical coverage” by boycotting media outlets.
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Published in: HomeThe gift of Covid-19The gift can be regarded as a brutal lesson in the inescapable universalism – a trembling fragility and profound...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Cummings-Johnson sagaIs there an unhealthy emotional dependency inside Downing Street that threatens our democracy?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Street opera during lockdown"They know all this. But they still say these things. I'm saying them now."
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Women in power: countries with female leaders suffer six times fewer Covid deaths and will recover sooner from recessionThey did not underestimate the risks, focused on preventative measures and prioritized long-term social wellbeing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Averting another lost generation of European youth post-Covid-19With young people on tenterhooks, a robust recovery includes a European Green Deal and the enforcing of Article 7...
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Published in: HomeOn love and loathingThere are some for whom Julian Assange is a category of person who does not deserve love.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ireland’s caretaker government, and the shattering of a century-old duopolyThis recent period represents a seismic shift in Irish politics, with the previously unthinkable coming-together of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Amazon FranceAmazon is a company in expansion. Not only does it not pay proper taxes in France, but it knows how to use public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Is totalitarianism on the rise in the East?We should distinguish between Orban’s rightfully penalized measures of ruling by decree and less stringent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe nature of the threat: culpable ignorance and the humiliation of the Johnson Government in the COVID crisisLawrence Freedman’s preliminary account of scientific advice and political judgement hitherto in UK-policymaking...
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Published in: HomeTruth, with strings attachedWhy would anyone want to find a proof that the Earth is flat? Why the effort?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionCaring about social care“I lived in Leicester and if you are a woman and you want a job there, the only jobs available are in care work. ”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionBetween host and home: vulnerable European migrant workers of the UK at the mercy of coronavirusIs the pandemic creating a lost generation of young European migrants from the south and east of Europe, a lost...
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Published in: HomeThe biopolitics of COVID-19 – a personal view“As public health and societal debates play out in the coming months, I very much hope that we can hear more of the...
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Published in: TransformationStop narrating the pandemic as a story of warStories inspire action, so let’s tell ones that emphasise solidarity and care.
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Published in: HomeWe have to grasp how conspiracy theories workLike viruses, conspiracy theories are socially contagious and hard to stop once set in motion. We must understand...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionEnglish ‘exceptionalism’ despite Italy’s warningSeeing ourselves as others see us, Italian-style.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European Union as seen from Bergamo: post-populism or renaissance?In Bergamo and all the communities coping with this crisis, what seemed impossible is already happening now, for the...
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