Two weeks ago British MPs passed the Criminal Conduct Bill, which allows UK public authorities to commit crimes while undercover. Agamben’s theory of sovereignty can help us understand what the bill means for the expansion of state power and states of exception, argues Tom Goodyer.
This month Egypt holds its latest round of parliamentary elections. But what purposes do such elections serve in a military autocracy? Quite a few, actually, writes Hesham Shafick.
Attempts to demonise serious intellectual critiques of the UK Government’s counter-extremism programme are not just vacuous but dangerous, argues Dr Layla Aitlhadj.
Two weeks ago, a livestream of Noam Chomsky’s address at the Progressive International summit was censored momentarily by Facebook. The episode has brought to the fore the power of unaccountable social media platforms to censor dissenting ideas, as well as our collective need for an alternative, writes Harry Halpin.
The UK Government’s new Covid-19 contact-tracing app for England and Wales is a marked improvement on its dismal earlier attempt, but should you use it? It’s complicated, writes Paul Bernal.
Anti-racist activists in the UK must eschew stale debates over terminology and representation, and instead focus on building a movement rooted in structural knowledge and powered by cross-communal solidarity, write Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi.
Recent revelations that controversial US tech firm Palantir had secured a major UK government contract should trouble us all, writes Andrew Smith.
As a Palestinian who has lived under Israeli occupation, I have witnessed first-hand the effects of Israel’s apartheid system on the health and well-being of Palestinians, writes Rasha Kaloti.
Global lockdown is finally giving way to a period of economic crash and social unrest. Yet the state response to the outpouring of justified anger at police atrocities is remarkably similar to its response to the coronavirus pandemic. In the second of his series on lockdown theories, Andy McLaverty-Robinson looks at securitisation, notably the long history of shifting framings of healthcare and the creeping securitisation of social problems.
“A guide and a balm, a meditation on the politics of survival and an appeal to extend our arms towards each other”. Chav Solidarity, by D. Hunter, is a book that must be read, writes Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi.
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