About Anna Minton

Anna Minton is a writer and journalist and the author of Ground Control. A new edition, with a chapter on the true legacy of the Olympics, is published by Penguin.

Articles by Anna Minton

Olympic village or private new town?

London’s Olympic construction projects are shrouded in the most obtuse vagueries of UK planning legislation. But the implications of this go far beyond urban development – revealing the increasing subservience of representative democracy to the whims of private capital.  

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

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