Ello’s arrival may mark the beginning of a kinder, gentler era in social media.
![Ello promises a less creepy business model, writes Hind [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/201410782718594734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Ello’s arrival may mark the beginning of a kinder, gentler era in social media.
![Ello promises a less creepy business model, writes Hind [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/201410782718594734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Scotland vote raises questions about the relationship between the state and the people in an age of
![The campaign cast an unflattering light on core British institutions, writes Hind [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/201492061138554734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Britain’s rulers are under intense and growing pressure and technology and intelligence will not help them.
![Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced a $1.3bn intelligence and surveillance package [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014730134228614734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
What would an alternative to Facebook look like? Where would it come from?
![Facebook manipulated the newsfeed of hundreds of thousands of users for a behavioural experiment [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014751824569734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The non-immigrant working class in northern Europe have become figures of fun and objects of derision in the media.
![An Open Society report says 'white working class' in northern Europe has been misrepresented in media [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/201462481733810734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
There is more to being human than mere citizenship, whether you are an anarchist, a socialist or a social democrat.
![The crisis that began in 2007 might have been a moment when organised workers rediscovered their radical roots, writes Hind [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014691023650580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why is London so popular with foreign-born billionaires?
!["The attempt to maintain London as the centre of global capitalism requires tremendous dexterity from the country's rulers," writes Hind [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/201451715716179734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Is internet freedom imagined or real?

The Scots are slowly turning away from the ambiguities and consolations of Britain.
![The debate in Scotland threatens to shake the English out of their torpor in matters constitutional, writes Hind [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014227121024393734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The exodus of journalists lured by better pay in the corporate communications field is destroying the news industry.
!["The migration of business journalists into corporate public relations and finance, is... about the long-term shift in the balance of power between popular constituencies and the private sector," writes Daniel Hind [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/201311213027442580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)