Huffington Post did a great little piece on the Alternative Banking working group that I’m part of. You can find
The Alternative Banking working group of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is meeting this afternoon. Here are some suggestions for the
The other night, at the Occupy Wall Street “General Assembly”, I announced the formation of a new working group to
Independent Diplomat was really pleased to help with this visit. JB is making a documentary about the Western Sahara, and
Here are some suggestions for a manifesto for the Occupy Wall Street protests, which are currently taking place. The manifesto
After talking with a lot of people at the UN, and in the leader- and diplomat-packed corridors and lobbies of
There’s a lot of confusion about the PLO’s likely attempt this week to gain full membership of the UN. In
My cousin told me about this remarkable story. It illustrates perfectly the arguments of “The Leaderless Revolution”: a tragic and
I was very privileged to be invited to give a lecture about my newly-published book at the London School of
In the US and Europe, disillusion with politics is feeding the far right. We need a radical response that
One of the arguments of my forthcoming book is that one sign of the failure of government to agree necessary
Facing starvation and instability, Somalia needs the international
How far can we trust the corporations that profit by the personal
How might outsiders help fight dictators? As protesters fight dictators across the
My latest column in The Guardian, in the series “Power and Nations”:
This is my latest weekly column in “The Guardian” online, in the series “Power and Nations”.
Whenever an
The following article appeared in Civil Service World:
The Foreign Office has lost its way, says former
This article appeared in The Guardian online on 23 May 2011, the first article in a series
While our attention has been on Libya, the aftermath of bin Laden’s death and a hundred other news stories, there
I had not seen this passage until I read it in “Lapham’s Quarterly”, an excellent new journal