Campaigners are challenging the lawfulness of restrictions brought in by the former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman
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If enough people are talking with each other about why the rule of law, strong democratic values and human rights are worth defending, the demagogues will fail
The late journalist Alexander Cockburn had a good line on the legacy media. Referring to the little ‘Correction’ boxes that would appear most mornings in The New York Times, he suggested that the principal reason the paper made such a show of its fallibility was to bolster its reputation for veracity. In owning to these […]
by Nicole Brown* Dovie Coleman, considered one of the “founding mothers” of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), was affectionately known as the “human tornado”. Her boldness and highly effective organizing strategies demonstrated her strategic acumen and leadership centered on the issues affecting those impacted by the system of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods. Coleman was […]
Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Barker, editor of the Fremantle Shipping News, to chat about technology and the human condition. We went deep!
As philosopher and broadcaster Scott Stephens suggests in his introduction to Justice and Hope, Raimond Gaita’s principal contribution to the practice of moral philosophy is to have opened it up to readers and audiences that wouldn’t usually encounter it. Most notably in his memoir Romulus, My Father (1998), but also in A Common Humanity (2000) […]
In How to Rule Your Own Country, Harry Hobbs and George Williams consider the phenomenon of micronations, which is to say territorial entities whose members claim independence or sovereignty but which lack diplomatic recognition.