Social responsibility goes digital
February 2012 – Information technology is being hailed as the new face of socially responsible business.
Spain turns right but where’s the far right?
December 2011 – On the anniversary of Franco’s death, Spain elected a centre-right government but that doesn’t mean its far-right ghosts have been exorcised entirely.
A common cents approach to money
September 2011 – With the United States and Europe on the verge of bankruptcy, the time has come to consider a radical solution – a single global currency.
Should Arabs treat Erdoğan as a hero?
September 2011 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received a hero’s welcome across the Arab world. But should Arabs welcome or be weary of Turkey’s greater engagement in the Middle East?
‘Redheads under the bed’ as a substitute for good reporting
September 2011 – A story that redhead sperm is not welcome at a Danish spermbank has gone global, reflecting how good reporting is being crowded out of the media by ‘incredible free content’.
September 2011 – All is not well in the old world of organisational paternity, job security and economic rationality. But the silver lining is that we have millions of virtual ‘friends’ to feel our pain.
Arab spring and Turkish autumn?
June 2011 – Is Turkey truly a role model for the Arab Spring or is it actually a secular democracy in its autumn years?
March 2011 – Muammar Gaddafi and Silvio Berlusconi have something in common: delusions of grandeur that keep them desperately holding on to the reins of power.
February 2011 – Arab revolutionary fever has spread to Europe as Belgians raise their freedom fries, not to bring down a regime but to ask for one to be formed.
December 2010 – Among the most hated people in Europe, Roma are treated as second-class citizens at home and abroad. Nikolaj Nielsen spent some time with members of a Roma family.
EU: from soft to soft power of Israel
November 2010 – Rather than quietly walking down the aisle with Israel, the EU should harness its formidable ‘soft power’ to promote peace.
November 2010 – Islamophobia is common in western society, so the classroom is a good place to start combating it.
The rise of far-right politics on both sides of the Atlantic
November 2010 – On KALW’s weekly media round table, Khaled Diab took part in a radio debate on the rise of far-right politics on both sides of the Atlantic.
October 2010 – Should organisations raising money for foreign militaries or to perpetuate occupations enjoy charitable status?
August 2010 – Most journalists dread crunching data. But finding narratives among the numbers is part of journalism’s mandate. Luckily, there are tools to help.
August 2010 – Malta’s complex heritage is living proof that cultures mash more than civilisations clash.
July 2010 – The fifth anniversary of the 7 July attacks has refocused attention on Islamist terrorism, but the neo-Nazi threat goes largely unnoticed.
July 2010 – A return to an ancestral homeland is a dream that’s long inspired diasporas – often with troubling results.
May 2010 – The chair of a leading multinational claims that Europeans do not work hard enough and do not value work enough. I beg to differ.
The naked truth about body scanners
February 2010 – Airport body scanners are being touted as the latest anti-terroism wizadry. But do they actually work and are they worth the invasion in privacy?
Building intolerance in Switzerland
December 2009 – The Swiss minaret ban doesn’t mean European Muslims are persecuted, but it makes me worry for the Europe my son has been born into.
Huff and puff brought the economic house down
October 2009 – How the Mr Bigs and their biglettes unwittingly brought down the world’s economies – and the hotly contested prize for ‘America’s worst investor’.
Swedish idiom and the sum of all cardamom
September 2009 – If I were to vanish into thin air, my Swedish in-laws would have a suitable expression for this.
EU election monitoring… junket, joke or both?
September 2009 – “The Afghan elections were fair, but not free,” declared European election monitors. Meaningless sound-bite or what?
August 2009 – Given that only about 4% of the EU’s population is Muslim, why is the fear of a coming Eurabia so strong in certain quarters?
August 2009 – The EU rose out of the ruins of war. Perhaps, with a little patience, a Middle Eastern union is not such a distant fantasy.
August 2009 – Tougher naturalisation laws are counterproductive. What we need is to redefine our understanding of citizenship.
July 2009 – Could the disgruntled ‘baby doom’ generation turn on Europe’s baby boomers?
We don’t need no age segregation
April 2009 – Segregating school students by gender, or grouping them according to age simply doesn’t make sense.
February 2009 – The turmoil submerging Latvia is an example of ‘drizzle-down’ economics in action and has implications for the rest of Europe.
February 2009 – The Dutch have employed some novel flower power to persuade Israel to relax its embargo on Gaza. Now it’s time to end the blockade.
January 2009 – Governments need to rethink their economy policies to make them more equitable and responsive to citizens’ needs.
December 2008 – Immigrants in Europe are more likely to be over-qualified for the jobs or unemployed than the native population.
All continents on the Western Front
November 2008 – It is time European countries acknowledged the part soldiers from their former colonies played in the First World War.
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