The majority party in Scotland’s parliament is calling for Scottish independence.
Scotland Rallies Anew Around Cries for Secession
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United Kingdom
Nick Clegg’s Pro-Israeli Pronouncements Pale Beside Washington’s
Newt Gingrich, not to mention President Obama, outdo British Deputy Prime Minister Clegg in their support for Israel.
The Politics of the London Riots
With homes and buildings vandalized, and communities literally reduced to ashes, it has become easy to dismiss the violence on the street as “pure criminality.” But such conclusions are naive and insufficient. Viral civil unrest should not be reduced to simple terms; the riots have many different elements. Although some rioters have been plainly motivated by opportunism, social, political, and racial factors are also at play.
Murdoch Blinks: News Corp. Drops Its Satellite Bid
What would British media and politics look like if it weren’t dominated by the heavy hand of Rupert Murdoch?
Interview with Arun Kundnani
Arun Kundnani is a British writer and human rights activist. He is the former editor of Race and Class, published by the Institute of Race Relations in London, and is currently an Open Society Institute fellow. In 2009, he wrote Spooked: How Not to Prevent Violent Extremism, which explored the effects of the Prevent program, the British counter-radicalism policy aimed at Muslim communities. Here he talks to John Feffer of Foreign Policy In Focus about the debate on multiculturalism in the United Kingdom, the dichotomy between “good” and “bad” Muslims, and the status of the Preventing Violent Extremism program.
Interview with the Islamic Human Rights Commission
Massoud Shadjareh is the chair and Arzu Merali the director of research of the Islamic Human Rights Commission in London, which was established in 1997. They talked with FPIF in December about Islamophobia in the United Kingdom, the rise of the far right, and the Prevent Terrorism initiative of the British government
The 2010 “Are You Serious?” Awards
In which erstwhile FPIF columnist Conn Hallinan hands out his awards for dubious distinction to news stories and newsmakers.
“Tory scum! Off with their heads!”
The reactions of British youth to university fee increases can serve, to a certain extent, as a lesson to American youth.
Assange’s Arrest: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
Is the WikiLeak founder’s threat to drop the rest of the documents motivated by revenge or concern for WikiLeaks?
Insert Your Own Julian Assange Slur Here: __________
Seldom in recent memory has the wrath of God been called down on anyone like it has been on the WikiLeaks founder.