Archive: Opinion

Sweden’s NATO quest: Democracy in decline, militarism on the rise

Opinion

8.12.2023

Sweden’s abandonment of ‘neutrality’ is not only of strategic importance to NATO, but also symbolic of the breakdown of the liberal ...

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Netherlands: Far-right win calls for a focus on humanity

Opinion

5.12.2023

Rather than just vilifying individual politicians which only increases polarisation, we should focus on building democracy and giving people ...

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Israel’s insidious narrative about Palestinian prisoners

Opinion

29.11.2023

More than two-thirds of the Palestinians proposed for release by Israel under the truce have not been convicted of any crimes. Most were ...

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Less shock and more strategy needed after Geert Wilders victory

Opinion

29.11.2023

Whenever a disruption candidate does well on the right, the reaction from the mainstream and the left is anything but analytical

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COP28: A lobbying conference for the biggest polluters

Opinion

28.11.2023

Those who are destroying our planet will gather to preach that we are all in the same boat and that everyone needs to do their part

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Europe’s 15-year slump

Opinion

22.11.2023

Europe is languishing in a long-term economic slump whose origins lay in Wall Street’s near-death experience in 2008

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Good times for the Military-Industrial Complex

Opinion

19.11.2023

Rather than romanticising the military-industrial complex, isn’t it time to place it under greater democratic control?

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European complicity in war crimes in Gaza

Opinion

17.11.2023

Some EU member states have been busy doing business with Israel, approving lucrative arms deliveries, aware they will be used against the ...

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The big idea: Has the digital economy killed capitalism?

Opinion

15.11.2023

Rather than turbo-charging the free market, Amazon et al have brought back a kind of feudalism

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