City of London Elections 2013: the battle, the count, the lessons

Daniel Jones 24 May 2013

The recent elections to the City of London’s local authority were fiercely fought, after years where the majority of seats went uncontested. Lessons should be drawn for any future attempt to reform the financial services industry.

Gridlock: the growing breakdown of global cooperation

Thomas Hale, David Held, and Kevin Young 24 May 2013

Economic and political shifts in large part attributable to the successes of the post-war multilateral order are now amongst the factors grinding that system into gridlock.

EU economic and monetary disunion

Agenor 23 May 2013

Backtracking on the EU's monetary union will be politically very costly, but in the absence of a genuine economic and political union this stands out as the most likely scenario. What are the alternatives? Are there any?

Londoners march to save the NHS

stuart monro 23 May 2013

Banners and voices lifted up in support of the NHS on Saturday May 18th.

Milburn, the NHS, and Britain's 'revolving door'

Caroline Molloy 23 May 2013

As the government ploughs on with its NHS ‘reforms’ in the face of opposition from medics and the public, whose interests are really driving these reforms? The latest move by former Health Secretary Alan Milburn provides a clue.

Half-capacity Jordan: whose stories do we need?

Munir Atalla 23 May 2013

The way Jordanians imagine their national collective identity must evolve from tolerance to acceptance and from diversity to true inclusion.

Untangling Egypt's web of political and economic challenges

Marc van Oudheusden and Scott Hickie 23 May 2013

Minimising IMF financial support through access to Gulf State finance allows Morsi to craft new political narratives that reject views of Egypt as a US client state and redefines Egypt within a framework of Arab nationalism and centre-right political Islam.  

The boundaries of Israeli unity

Omer Harari 23 May 2013

Two years ago, the rallying cry was "The people demand social justice", which was more open ended, proving its tenuousness in the question of Palestinian solidarity.

 

The Great Tax Robbery - reviewed

Chris Hill 20 May 2013

Private Eye's Richard Brooks has released a new book, The Great Tax Robbery, reviewed here by a former colleague. How did HMRC come to be 'captured' by big money, and why is government doing so little to correct it?

Why politicians can’t be honest about the EU

Damian Hockney 20 May 2013

Responding to Stuart Weir's recent article, Damian Hockney says the EU's supposed benefits are as illusory as the supposed damages the UK would suffer from leaving.

Health and Social Care Integration: a blueprint for the future?

Veronica Beechey 20 May 2013

Both Labour and the Conservatives are keen to integrate social care and health care. But will these proposals put patients at their heart - or will they be driven by the needs of bureaucracy or even business?

Two notions of liberty revisited - or how to disentangle Liberty and Slavery

David Graeber 19 May 2013

The modern liberal concept of liberty has roots in Roman law and the Roman understanding of the master and the slave. We need to unpick that heritage to imagine a better basis for our political aspirations

Death knell sounds for cradle to grave service

Kailash Chand 17 May 2013

Is Cameron about to realise Margaret Thatcher's dream and abandon universal healthcare provision?

The British legal profession has a duty to help ensure justice for all

Geoffrey Bindman 17 May 2013

Legal aid and Law Centres are under threat in the UK, along with the principle of equal access to justice. Geoffrey Bindman QC says it's time for the legal profession to dig into their pockets and help meet the gap in state funding. This week's Friday Essay.

Europe’s seven most endangered species of monuments and sites

Costa Carras 17 May 2013

How best to preserve the archaeological record of the past, which so often obtrudes on political objectives of the present? And what happens when nation states are effectively bankrupt?  Are its monuments to be allowed to collapse into decay?

This week's editor

Heather McRobie


Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

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