Unsettling news came from Greece on Monday when riot police invaded the Economic University of Athens. The police threw chemicals at the crowds of university students protesting against the newly...
How representative is the electoral system of representative democracy? Evidence shows that voter turnout in established democracies has taken a slump since the '80s. Voter apathy is directly...
'Blind journalist seeks out Palestine's forgotten voices' (Al Jazeera English) Disabled journalists can struggle in a media environment that isn't always very accommodating. Budour Hassan seeks out...
Every 40 seconds one person commits suicide. Only in the past 45 years the world has turned 60 per cent more suicidal than it used to be. Unemployment, low income, age (over 45), low social status,...
Talking about the hijab in the post-Paris-attacks-Europe strikes a lot of chords. Anything iconically related to the coordinated terrorist atrocities of 10 gunmen and the death of 129 people who were...
It’s the 70s. A small Mediterranean country of a historic past and turbulent present is undergoing an economic miracle. Greece’s economy is thriving, industries are springing like mushrooms, and...
One thing the Greek financial crisis has revealed is that democracy is in short supply. EU countries are blackmailing a fellow EU member state. EU institutions are bypassed, in favour of unelected...
After a long build-up, unsurprisingly, Syriza swept Greek elections this weekend, taking 149 of 300 seats in parliament. The far-left party has formed a coalition with the conservative Independent...
Last Tuesday, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced that Hellenic Radio and Television (ERT)—Greece’s only public television and radio station, and national equivalent to the BBC—would...
Discordia, by Laurie Penny and Molly Crabapple, Vintage 2012. With Greece collapsing in agonisingly slow motion over the past few years, it was inevitable that a slew of books would come along to...