Whether launching an attack on asylum policy or deciding, upon reflection, that accepting her OBE was an offensive homage to the repressive British Empire, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is never far from controversy. Her columns in the Independent are required reading for all concerned with issues of race, a... (more)

Early in the twenty-first century, the world has grown increasingly smaller because of advances in technology and the erosion of the nation-state as a political paradigm. The process of globalisation - with its promises of a common government - offers a new political model for the world that fosters... (more)