Nordic model is answer to rich world’s howl of fury about globalisation
by Rashmee
Posted on November 6, 2018
In 2005, economics professor Joseph Stiglitz wrote a book titled ‘Globalization and Its Discontents’. It …
Read MoreNow we need to understand what the Swedish election results really mean
by Rashmee
Posted on September 12, 2018 / The National
Until it was over and almost all the results counted, the Swedish election was being …
Read MoreCosmopolitanism isn’t dead but it might need a rebrand
by Rashmee
Posted on June 6, 2018 / The National
“Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe,” US president Barack Obama reportedly …
Read MoreWhat? Japan is populism-free because a populist heads the government!
by Rashmee
Posted on January 22, 2018
Ian Buruma, editor of ‘The New York Review of Books’, recently asked an interesting question…
Read MoreThe art of labelling: What is politics that’s not quite left and not quite right? ‘Light’
by Rashmee
Posted on May 24, 2017
What on earth do you call a far-right politician who speaks for working-class concerns? Would …
Read MoreWhat’s got a jazzy label and is confusing? The new politics of our age – Part I
by Rashmee
Posted on May 17, 2017
The politics of our time is neither one thing nor the other. A far-right French …
Read MoreThere’s a global debate about ‘do we belong’
by Rashmee
Posted on March 2, 2017 / The National
After an Indian engineer was shot dead in the United States for, as his white …
Read MoreWhatever the referendum result, Italy is not about to have its #Brexit moment
by Rashmee
Posted on December 3, 2016
Let’s be clear Italy is NOT about to have its #Brexit moment. Whether it votes …
Read MoreIceland may be about to elect its self-confessed Bernie Sanders. Here’s why we should care
by Rashmee
Posted on October 25, 2016
Hands up, those who knew Iceland goes to the polls on Saturday, October 29. Both …
Read MorePeoples’ anger & the Austrian re-vote. Read correctly, plan accordingly
by Rashmee
Posted on September 16, 2016
The real takeaway from the forthcoming re-run of Austria’s presidential election (now re-re-scheduled from October …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK