Justin Reynolds 
Might it be possible to design some form of confederacy preserving Israeli and Palestinian nationhood while granting mutual access to the same territory? I look at the ‘parallel states solution’ in light of the White House’s decision to unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A roundup of the ten books I most enjoyed reading in 2017: some sci-fi, some histories of the Russian Revolution, a bit of philosophy and a novel about Ovid…
An article for The Norwich Radical exploring China’s design for enforcing ‘trustworthiness’: the Social Credit System.
The 2000th anniversary of the Roman poet Ovid’s death, far from home on the shores of the Black Sea, prompted some thoughts on the condition of exile, as experienced then and now.
An article for The Norwich Radical discussing Communist China’s complex relationship with the legacy of the old sage Confucius.
An excerpt from a feature I wrote for issue 70 of The New European about a short-lived experiment with democratic socialism that took place in the Democratic Republic of Georgia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
A piece for The Norwich Radical exploring the eloquent equivocations and byzantine outworkings of the Balfour Declaration, published 100 years ago this week.