1978. Punk is Dead. Where have you Been?
Punk was inextricably linked to Britain’s social, political and economic environment during the 1970s. The crisis provided…
Same Old New Labour
Jeremy Corbyn was intended to be a clever political tool and marketing ploy. Smarting from its crushing…
Brexit and the Partition of the Nonsensical
Let there be no mistake – Brexit, at its core, was a vote against immigration and immigrants….
3 documentary films on Northern Ireland
Bloody Friday, BBC Northern Ireland |2012. On Friday 21 July 1972, 19 Provisional IRA bombs ripped through…
The Möbius strip of national and world security
The apparently boundless scope of mass surveillance revealed by Snowden beggared the imagination. Not only in terms…
Incitement to terrorism and the regulation of free speech
Current negotiations on an European Union (EU) Directive defining terrorism intends to accord a large role to…
Rollback or Legalisation? Mass Surveillance in France and the Snowden Paradox
On June the 5th, it will be exactly three years since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote…
Prevention, repression and radicalisation in France: an interview with Laurent Mucchielli
Laurent Mucchielli is a sociologist and senior researcher at the CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre, Paris), attached…
Denaturalisation, ‘Terrorism’ and National Identity in France
Hannah Arendt once stated that we might “measure the degree of totalitarian infection by the extent to…
Brussels attacks and the Law of unintended consequences
On March 22, 2016 Brussels has been targeted and no less than 32 persons died in coordinated…
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