Very few people, it seems, know quite what is occurring in front of us. Not for the first time, it is astonishing how social evils can remain ‘unknown’, and even unnamed, before they can be acknowledged.
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The Oslo gunman, Anders Breivik, was certainly not on his own, even though he may have had no accomplices. In fact, he was animated by all the paranoia of a Europe that believes itself to be 'under siege'; a constraint to which we are unaccustomed
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L'affaire Murdoch: The rejoicing should be muted. Individuals may be cast down from their place of eminence, but the thrones of power remain, awaiting their next transient occupants.
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In the US and Britain, it is essentially the poor who fail to register a vote. In India, the poor traditionally vote in numbers. What explains this?
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Invisible, unregulated, poorly paid, even a definition of domestic servant proves elusive and contradictory. Even the term ‘maidservant’ – widely used in India – is an unhappy one
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What do the Westerners really mean when they admiringly declare that ‘they are beating us at our own game'.
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Victims of the imperial economic violence of yesterday remain victims of the global economic imperium of this most enlightened age.
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Those who protest most loudly their devotion to their country are the truly seditious; that is, if anyone should be so foolish as to dwell on archaic offences...
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When a building at Laxmi Nagar in East Delhi collapsed on 15th November, killing at least 70 people, the media did not generally permit the grievous loss of so many lives to speak for itself....
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