Graham Allen MP has tried harder, with more patience and less thanks, to get Labour to embrace genuine democratic reform than perhaps any other member of his Party, not to speak of his fellow MPs. Now, as yet another Committee reports on how the ...
I have just seen this and it seems all the more relevant today. No doubt if they try it again, it will be tasered first! This article is published by Anthony Barnett, and openDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons licence. You may republish it without ...
For the first time the EU wide moves towards a surveillance society and a database state set out in all their appalling glory. A major report has recently been published NeoConOpticon. It has its own webpage . The authors, with Ban Hayes of Statewatch ...
Last week two of the most inspirational figures of the post-1945 Britain’s left came together, so to speak, at a memorial service in St Martin’s in the Field, by Trafalgar Square. They were Peter Townsend, whose memorial it was, and Tony Benn. was a ...
Gareth Young invited me to . A debate that followed the annual general meeting of the Campaign for an English Parliament. In plucky fashion it was held in the House of Commons on the day of the State Opening of Parliament. There were more than a ...
Watch Dispatches on Channel 4 this evening at 8pm. Peter Oborne presents a brave expose of the British lobby in the UK. Not that they do anything illegal, just that they should do it in the light. openDemocracy, supported by OurKingdom has published ...
On October 4, Greek voters decisively supported the socialist opposition, PASOK, and gave an absolute majority to its leader George Papandreou. The outcome goes against the grain of voting patterns across Europe where the centre right is resurgent. ...
It was on its last legs, but two events yesterday look like the final nails in the coffin for our unique unwritten constitution Two developments on Wednesday 4 November have finally blown up Britain's uncodified constitution, symbolically just before ...
What were the revolutions of 1989? Timothy Garton Ash has a review article in the NYRB on a large clutch of accounts of that year, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War. We know what they did - they led to the end of the Soviet ...
Anthony Barnett denounces Conor Geartys attack on the Convention on Modern Liberty as a gathering of covert right-wingers I had to chuckle reading Conor Geartys attempt to admonish the Convention on Modern Liberty in the New Statesman of 23 March. He ...
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