Jobless in Europe: The wretches of Spain
What kind of a social model is it that leaves half of young people out of work? George Eaton profiles Spain's employment woes.What kind of social model is it that leaves more than half of young people...
View ArticleIn Latvia, Riga has become a ghost town
The third-poorest country in the EU, Latvia punitive welfare conditions and the exclusion of Russian-speakers from surrounding nations has lead to a depopulation of 30,000 a year. Early this year,...
View ArticleGeneration jobless: The worst youth unemployment crisis in European history...
At least 26 million unemployed people will be looking for work across Europe this summer, while in Britain, 2,400 bankers are earning over €1m a year - real pounds and euros that should be better...
View ArticleLeader: Chronic joblessness has become the new normal across Europe
At home and across the continent, governments are failing to address the causes of youth unemployment. The greatest achievement of the Keynesian governments that ruled postwar Europe was to banish the...
View ArticleIs business as usual possible in Egypt?
Dr Elizabeth Stephens takes a look at the current condition of the Egyptian economy, and asks whether businesses will be able to operate with any kind of normality.A series of challenges have been...
View ArticleWhat ever happened to Martin Luther King's dream?
The horrors of segregation bound the US civil rights movement together. Fifty years on from Martin Luther King’s great speech, inequality persists – but in subtler ways. In 1955, Emmett Till was fished...
View ArticleThink of Boston, not Berlin
Ireland is second only to Greece in terms of the scale and speed of health cutbacks undertaken by “developed” countries. One hundred years ago this month, an inspiring revolt kicked off in Dublin....
View ArticleMartin Luther King and the African-American fight for justice
From fairly early on, the Civil Rights Movement, in many instances, was a carefully managed affair. Bonnie Greer examines the role of the black middle class in the Civil Rights Movement and the March...
View ArticleLeader: We must support the democratic process in Egypt, even if we dislike...
The government for once should take a stand on a matter of principle. The uprisings that have swept the Arab world since December 2010 have initiated a painful struggle for the citizens of those...
View ArticleThe ugly truth behind Obama's Syria plan
Targeted strikes to punish Assad will only perpetuate the conflict – and that's exactly what the American government wants.America's aims in Syria are not what the government wants you to think.You can...
View ArticleLife under Pinochet: “We still don’t know what happened to my brother”
Gloria Elgueta's brother Martin was detained by Pinochet’s political police and held in Londres 38. Years later, a campaign is underway to turn the notorious house of torture into a memorial...
View ArticleIndia has to make the fight against rape something that cannot be ignored
Every time a high-profile rape case occurs in India, there is shock, outrage and protests, but nothing actually changes.Rape. Shock. Outrage. Protests.Now let’s wait for a few months to pass.Another...
View ArticleMeet the middle-aged women who are Britain's female sex tourists
When we picture a sex tourist, we usually think of a middle-aged man. But growing numbers of women are paying for a “holiday romance”. They are called “bumsters” in Gambia, “Rastitutes” or “beach boys”...
View ArticleThe many faces of India
The idea that India is "the rape capital of the world" needs to be challenged but without refusing women's experience of fear and violence.A University of Chicago student recently wrote about her...
View ArticleIn the courtyard of a Cairo mortuary, the Arab springtime seemed very distant
Jeremy Bowen reports from Egypt. The morning after Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign as president of Egypt in February 2011, millions of people in this fractious, overheated, argumentative nation were...
View ArticleEthiopia and Kenya help dismember Somalia
A new deal has recognised Jubaland, a strip of land in southern Somalia and bordering on Kenya and Ethiopia, as yet another quasi-independent entity in the region.After nine days of late night meetings...
View ArticleThe difference between "black riots" and rebellion
Historically, rioting may not have been beneficial to black communities, but the easy dismissal of black rebellion allows politicians like Obama, and those to whom he appealed, to believe that stalled...
View ArticleJeremy Bowen: Ice cream in Damascus
The central parts of Damascus feel more like a city at war than they did a year ago but physically the place is still almost untouched, finds the BBC's Middle East editor. One evening in 2006, after a...
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Syria: The west humiliated
President Obama’s Middle East strategy is in ruins and the west is paying the price of having its bluff called, writes John Bew. President Obama’s thinking about foreign affairs is deep, reflective and...
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From the Archive: Seamus Heaney on Ulster’s Troubles
A piece by the future Nobel winner on the curious atmosphere in Ulster during the Troubles, first published in the NS of 1 July 1966.You are invited to read this free preview of the new issue of the...
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