Otherweb Archive - Opinion - World

• The Church at a Crossroads
• Let Aboriginal Australians speak for themselves
• Sneaky, excessive and unjustified: why Labor’s electoral reforms are vulnerable to constitutional challenge | Anne Twomey
• Why was a Congolese paedophile allowed to stay in the UK?
• GIJN 2024 Board Election Results: Four Incumbents Re-Elected, Three New Members
• Daisy Cooper: "This is how Labour could have fuelled growth"
• House passes bill to ban U.S. government contracts with Nicols Maduro's regime
• The great machinery of government is fundamentally broken
• EU Looking At Ramping Up Ukraine Aid
• Construction is the world’s biggest polluter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it | Simon Jenkins
• This is a book that feels frantically in search of its own narrative thread
• Secrets, Leaks, Rivers: How Cross-Border Investigative Journalism Is Covering Africa
• A ‘political trial’? Marine Le Pen is singing from the Donald Trump hymn sheet | Pauline Bock
• Labour can no longer hide from the cost of Brexit
• Trump’s opportunity to make the world a safer place - Washington Examiner
• Two undersea internet cables appear to have been severed in Europe this week
• Labor’s caps on international students are on the brink of defeat. Will they now act in the national interest? | George Williams
• MIT professor Michel DeGraff says Jews have no connection to Israel and that Israeli textbooks 'weaponize trauma of the Holocaust'
• Biden was nowhere to be found when a group of world leaders gathered for a photo at the G-20 summit in Brazil
• A vote that straddles Sri Lanka’s divides
• How ‘Scientific American’s departing editor helped degrade science
• Will America make the same mistakes as Britain in the Middle East?
• The international conspiracy to erase America’s borders - Washington Examiner
• In England and Wales, where you live determines the kind of policing you get. That isn’t right | Gavin Stephens
• For the first time in its history, we could be looking at a genuinely rightwing European Union | Alberto Alemanno
• Tren De Aragua Gang Terrorizes American Cities
• Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield? | Will Hayward
• Keir Starmer wants immigration control to be a Labour cause
• Bill Browder: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant"
• The streetlights going out over Britain tell a brutal story: austerity isn't over – it's getting worse | John Harris
• German conservative leader Merz launches election bid with attack on Scholz
• Why Labour’s high command has become very obsessed with bills and borders
• Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain | Will Hutton
• Why the Very Online right has it in for Kemi Badenoch
• Israel Publishes Footage Showing Hamas Torturing Palestinians
• So, it’s goodbye to Gary Linker and to the costly, star-struck culture at the BBC | Martha Gill
• Trump, Putin, Xi… Strongmen are at the gate but Europe’s leaders are too busy infighting to notice | Simon Tisdall
• Why are the cops policing playground taunts?
• U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar: 'Mexico is not safe'
• This week, we take a look at some of the most important political stories of the year
• ‘Many journalists have left’: How post-election repression compounded press freedom fears in Venezuela - ICIJ
• The death - and rebirth - of public sector consultancy
• This week's New Statesman is in Baku, Azerbaijan
• The impotent rage of the flailing woke elites
• This is the strange and outdated custom of handing our retirement savings to people in other countries
• Why the Cattle Cars Arenât Being Built
• Labour will not win a war on the countryside
• Meet the groups trying to create a new leftwing party – and channel the energy missing from Starmer’s Labour | Andy Beckett
• Who will be the next SNP leader?
• Rather than banning big money, Labor’s electoral changes will guarantee cash keeps flowing to the big parties | Kate Chaney
• Sadiq Khan plays the everyman
• Peru to host Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit with China’s Xi Jinping expected to attend
• Germany’s car industry is losing its famous Vorsprung – and it can’t all be blamed on Trump and tariffs | Konstantin Richter
• Sue Gray’s final departure marks the moment that the Starmer project gets serious | Martin Kettle
• The Fatal Flaw in India's China Strategy
• The Biden administration’s threat to cut military aid to Israel was, once again, toothless
• Javier Milei, Staunch Economist, Brings Argentina’s Inflation To Less Than 3%
• Is there any red line that Israel will be held to? Biden has just confirmed the answer is no | Owen Jones
• Judicial Watch Sues for Records on $27M Grants to ‘Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees’ for Use in Gaza - Judicial Watch
• After Trump’s win, expect a shift in Labour’s priorities
• Donald and Nigel’s day by the sea
• Russian court denies appeal of U.S. citizen sentenced to 12 years for donating $51 to pro-Ukraine charity
• Biden admin stops trying to tell Americans which foreigners they can debate
• PMQs review: Badenoch looks for a culture war scrap
• Why did Justin Welby fall so tragically short? Because he was preoccupied with efficiency, not listening | Catherine Pepinster
• The difference between Starmer and Badenoch that really matters? Their approach to Trump | Tom Baldwin
• Houthi Terrorists Launch Attacks Against U.S. Warships
• Donald Trump is a blow to Australia on climate and trade. Here’s how we minimise the damage | Ross Garnaut
• “A Final, Deadly Exclamation Point”: Biden Backs Down on 30-Day Israel Arms Ultimatum
• Europe’s path for a just migration
• Justin Welby has fallen on his sword over the CofE cover-up of Smyth abuse
• The fall of Justin Welby
• Israel’s true objective in northern Gaza? Removing Palestinians – and annexing the territory | Ben Reiff
• Post Office scandal is coming up to a year since ITV beamed it into living rooms. Here's where we are now
• I’m a weirdo, but it makes me smile to see a Biblical verse come to life. This latest riot of out-of-control Jew-haters is a textbook for the ignorance of the perpetrators
• Reporting Stories of War in the Face of Loss: Interview with the Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda
• Voters around the world wish a plague on all incumbents. Labour can avoid that fate | Polly Toynbee
• Kemi Badenoch is no philosopher-queen
• How far do we need to go back to trace the origins of this conflict?
• The moral ghettoisation of the Jews
• Germany’s gender self-ID law is dangerous and regressive
• The return of the Blairites
• Trump Offers Elise Stefanik U.N. Ambassadorship
• UK universities are in crisis – and Labour has taken the first step towards saving them | Philip Augar
• At Cop29, we must treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as Covid – history shows it can be done | Mukhtar Babayev
• How an Investigative Hub Trained a Generation of Reporters in the US-Mexico Border Region
• Who still remembers the riots which swept through English towns in August?
• This Remembrance Day, let’s acknowledge how Britain’s colonies suffered during the second world war | Mihir Bose
• If I were Captain America, I’d quit | Stewart Lee
• England's universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal | Sonia Sodha
• In an increasingly uncertain world, we Europeans must be bold and build hope | Stella Creasey and Sandro Gozi
• The collapse of Germany’s government will delight Trump – and his European friends | Paul Taylor
• Germans have had enough of their useless leaders
• Trump Announces Readiness to End Gaza War in Call With Abbas
• Podcast #258: Canadian Bureaucracy and Its Discontents
• A shield for Gaza's innocent
• Scottish authorities will not investigate Emirati Interpol president, police say - ICIJ
• Scotland can be a world leader in clean energy
• Green MP Carla Denyer is still adjusting to the antiquated workings of parliament
• Shoe company Steve Madden plans to slash Chinese imports by 45% over the next year