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Published in: Shine A LightThe coordinated attack on multiculturalismCentre-right parties across Europe are announcing the failure of multiculturalism. We are witnessing a co-ordinated...
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Published in: HomeOld and new demagoguery: the rhetoric of exclusion
Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic,...
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Published in: HomeMigrants in Brussels – against the oddsMigrant women especially face extreme discrimination in Brussels. But they don’t necessarily see it that way.
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Published in: HomeOne asylum seeker in Belgium: Part ThreeIn March 2010, over 400 Macedonian asylum seekers arrived in Belgium. Many have since returned to Macedonia. Most...
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Published in: HomeBelgium’s asylum seeker fiascoPeople in Brussels are led to believe that there is a huge influx of asylum-seekers. Yes and no. The truth is much...
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Published in: HomeThe humanities and the sciences depend on each other, so cutting humanities funding hurts the "hard" subjects too
The UK educational reforms, with their utilitarian emphasis on Science and Engineering, demonstrate no understanding...
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Published in: HomeAlong the language frontierAs Belgium is on the brink of collapse, some talk of a second Yugoslavia, partly in jest, partly not. It has been...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime to Call it a Day: Sometimes it is right for a country to recognise that its job is done
We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel...
