We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Karen BartlettKaren Bartlett is director of Charter88, a campaign group for constitutional reform in the UK. Previously she was conference director at the Fabian Society. Her achievements include the organisation of 'A New World Order?,' a series of debates on the role of the media in democracy; and 'Transforming Britain' a major conference on Labour's second term agenda. Recent articlesThe right to hunt? England's new constitutional debate Richard Burge, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, and Karen Bartlett, Director of Charter 88, talk with openDemocracy’s Anthony Barnett and Sophie Jeffreys. |
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