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...permitted, hyper-security tends to become permanent. If we want a humane and accessible public realm and a genuinely open society, we should not let the exceptional become the norm as we seek more adaptable and effective ways of coping, in a calm and measured way, with urban terrorism. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....

...open-ended financial flows to such a country. The South Africans, meanwhile, wanted to slow the number of economic refugees, about 3m of whom have fled Zimbabwe for Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, all of which already suffer from rising unemployment. And so when the coup came, there was little reason for anyone to help the Mugabes cling on – even their oldest...

...Open University. Peter, you’re in the midst of completing your PhD thesis. Could you tell us more about it? Peter Wood: My work has been looking at the growth of cycling in London over the last few years, vaguely starting in 2000, and we’ve seen cycling just increase hugely, in fact increasing more as each year goes by, and I’ve been looking at why this has been...