by guestblogger | Nov 7, 2014 | Events
By Dina Gusejnova Familiar images from 1989 show people on the Berlin Wall, dancing, holding hands, feet dangling east and west, and laughing. Twenty-five years on, these images remain icons of a fleeting phenomenon: political happiness. It is all too easy to confuse...
by guestblogger | Nov 6, 2014 | Events
By Dr Michael Rowe The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. The event, which has come to symbolise the end of the Cold War, came about when an East German government spokesman miscalculated, and erroneously announced the previously sealed border open. Crowds of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 2, 2014 | Features, Republished
Radical left parties, Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, did well in the recent European elections. But how far can they go? And what are the lessons for the UK? Republished from From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study publish...
by guestblogger | Sep 25, 2014 | Features
By Sir Ronald Sanders The winner of Scotland’s agonising referendum on 18 September was undoubtedly and impressively, democracy. The leaders and members of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) set an example to nationalists in Northern Ireland and the rest of the...
by guestblogger | Jun 10, 2014 | Being Human festival
By Nicholas Stern We live in a time when the world faces problems of trust in institutions and a weakening of confidence in existing ideas and models. The geo-political landscape is shifting fundamentally. Politicians in many countries, including the UK, are failing...