Raphael Schlembach24 Mar 2016
How much will the public be told about Britain’s undercover police spying on political activists? Lord Justice Pitchford, who chairs the public inquiry into undercover policing, is due to make his ruling on the disclosure of evidence and protection of identity in...
Matthew Flinders4 Jan 2016
N.B. This post is a response to Kevin Gillan’s movements@manchester blog post and is being simultaneously published at Oxford University Press. An invitation from the British Library to give the first in a new public lecture series called ‘Enduring Ideas’ was...
Chung Yan Priscilla Kam13 Oct 2014
The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong is a critical milestone of pro-democracy campaigning in this postcolonial society. Differing from the previous movement mobilisation, the Umbrella Movement is neither planned nor led by any leader. Instead, the movement is a result...