Blogs
Ideas, Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Friday, April 29, 2011 9:00 - 1 Comment
Interview Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands
Since its release at the start of the year, Treasure Islands, Nicholas Shaxton's scathingly clinical critique of international finance, has attracted a huge amount of attention. In an exclusive interview with Ceasefire's deputy editor Musab Younis, Shaxson addresses some of the pressing questions raised by his book.
Ceasefire Bites - Tuesday, April 26, 2011 13:45 - 0 Comments
The ECGD: Rum business
An excellent piece by Lisa Nandy MP on the shady world of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD). Essentially, it’s little more than an official, tax-payer funded money laundering unit… Money quote: There is no more important time to reform this highly secretive and potentially damaging department. Currently the ECGD supports a handful of big […]
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 0:00 - 10 Comments
Essay Reflections on Libya and the Left
In an exclusive opinion piece, Syrian-British novelist and commentator Robin Yassin-Kassab offers his take on the Western Left's contradictions on Libya.
Ideas, Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Interview Kim Longinotto: Surviving with a smile
Kim Longinotto, one of the world's foremost female film-makers has gained worldwide acclaim for her brutally honest portrayals of oppression and violence against women and children. In an exclusive new interview, she speaks to Ceasefire's Melanie Scagliarini about life, art and the centrality of truth-telling to her work.
Blogs - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:59 - 1 Comment
Mohamed Bouazizi محمد البوعزيزي 29 March 1984 – 04 Jan 2011
Mohamed Bouazizi
محمد البوعزيزي
29/03/1984-04/01/2011
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, March 17, 2011 0:00 - 6 Comments
Ideas Humpty’s Refrain: Four myths behind the coalition cuts
In a devastatingly forensic new piece, Samuel Grove takes apart the coalition's economic case for public sector cuts which have, he argues, nothing to do with economic imperatives and everything to do with ideological dogma.
Ceasefire Bites, Features, Profiles, Special Reports - Wednesday, March 9, 2011 0:00 - 1 Comment
Tribute">Tom Hurndall: Honouring a legacy Tribute
In April 2003, Tom Hurndall, a young British photojournalist and peace worker, was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip as he carried two young Palestinian children out of the line of sniper fire. As a public appeal continues to get his journals published, writer and activist Libby Powell, a personal friend, pays tribute to his legacy.
Ceasefire Bites - Tuesday, March 8, 2011 12:20 - 0 Comments
A wee rant on academia and dictators
In a new 'Ceasefire Bites' blog entry, academic and writer Alf Nilsen says the current scandal over links between UK academia and the Gaddafi regime has brought to the surface some crude truths about the Academic world.
Blogs, Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels, Politics - Thursday, February 17, 2011 15:29 - 1 Comment
Life on Wheels – Week 81 – No freedom of speech for Cardiff University
Ceasefire contributor Jody Mcintyre has been prevented from speaking at Cardiff University. In his latest 'Life on Wheels' post, he explains why.Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 18:07 - 3 Comments
‘The cult of novelty’, 1968 and all that
Luke Cooper argues that the historical experience of the post-1968 radicalisation lays down some challenges to proponents of a new, non-hierarchical left in Britain that they are yet to fully answer
