Publications by Public Services & Democracy

  • April 2010

    For the most part, conservative interests still rule the Philippines' Congress, but it is not at all hopeless as a platform for change.

  • April 2010

    The dumbing-down of the masses is the primary achievement of the last two decades of so-called "reform” in Russia. Society has changed radically, and the mechanism by which cultural identity is formed has been seriously undermined, if not completely destroyed.

  • April 2010

    The world is changing before our eyes, but the underlying causes are poorly understood. The sudden recent collapse of the political regime in Kyrgyzstan is a case in point.

  • April 2010

    Given the actual consensus among the party leaders of the three main political parties in Britain, it was amazing to see how many differences they managed to manufacture during last week's televised debate.

  • April 2010

    India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is in decline, its ideology is in retreat and it is unable to enthuse the Hindu middle class. Now is the time to reassert secularism.

  • April 2010

    What does Morales' promise for a "communitarian socialism" amount to?

  • April 2010

    Although there will be left candidates and groups on the ballot in many constituencies in the coming British general election, there will be no single, widely-recognised, nationwide, left alternative. That is a tragedy from which no one can take comfort.

  • April 2010

    Britain's Conservative Party plans to cut the power of the state whilst doing nothing to give people control over big business, where inequality breeds.

  • April 2010

    The media frenzy and the ferocity of political competition in the coming general election in Britain will be in inverse proportion to the enthusiasm of the voters, who are being offered little in the way of real political choice.

  • April 2010

    The Russian government's modernization plans are outdated and mis-directed.