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  • 13 May 2009
    The disconnect between governors and governed

    The furore about MP’s expenses has temporarily overshadowed all other political issues, says Simon Barrow. But it is perhaps better seen as a symptom of a much wider disconnect between governors and governed.

  • 15 Oct 2008
    Scholars and religious leaders assess changing relations in China

    The rapidly changing relationship between religion and state was the focus of a dialogue between ten Chinese and nine European scholars and religious leaders representing Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and traditional Chinese religions

  • 26 Sep 2008
    Politics faces an economic crunch

    The main British party conferences were about to sidestep the economy, but the latest bank crunch has made the topic unavoidable, says Simon Barrow. But do politicians or the churches have anything meaningful to say?

  • 25 Sep 2008
    Ethics, Politics, and the State of Israel

    One could ask of any state how its political character and practices are intertwined with ethical or moral considerations.

  • 26 Aug 2008
    Obama and McCain quizzed by evangelicals on morals and religion

    With Barack Obama and John McCain joining battle for the November US presidential elections, a leading evangelical Christian figure organised a candidates forum refreshingly free of rancour, say observers.

  • 21 Aug 2008
    UK will get political with campaign groups, not parties, suggests new poll

    The United Kingdom rates committed campaigners such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King far more highly than celebrities and more than one in ten would be prepared to break the law to campaign for a cause they believed in.

  • 30 Jun 2008
    The other side of US religion and politics

    We hear a lot about the 'religious right' in the USA. But what about religious opinion of the centre and left?

  • 27 Jun 2008
    The politics of pressure

    The brutal pre-election repression of Robert Mugabe's regime may at last have brought the world to a tipping-point of disgust.

  • 22 Apr 2008
    How religion infuses and confuses US politics

    Barack Obama recently got into trouble for suggesting that alienated rural voters in Pennsylvania seek refuge in religion, rifles and rejection of outsiders.

  • 3 Apr 2008
    Religion and Secularism in the Public Sphere

    The global revival of religion has raised fundamental questions about its role in politics and its claim that it serves as a principle of identity, indispensable to the continuing survival of communit