About Anthony Barnett

Anthony Barnett is the founder of openDemocracy and now the Co-Editor of its UK section, Our Kingdom.

Anthony is a writer, journalist and democratic activist. He helped launch Charter 88 in 1988 and was its first Director through to 1995. Generating widespread support he turned it into a movement for the democratic reform of Britain (at the end of the 90s the Telegraph described it as the UK's "most influential pressure group of the decade"). He was a Co-Founder of openDemocracy in 2001 and its first Editor and then Editor-in-Chief until 2007. In 2009 he Co-Directed the Convention on Modern Liberty.

Anthony is the author of Iron Britannia (1982); Soviet Freedom (1988); the premature This Time, our constitutional revolution (1997); The Athenian Option – radical reform for the House of Lords (with Peter Carty, 2009) and co-author and editor of among other books, Aftermath: the Struggle of Vietnam and Cambodia (with John Pilger, 1982); Power and the Throne (1994), Town and Country (with Roger Scruton, 1998) and a considerable range of articles and pamphlets covering politics and culture. He conceived and developed the television film, England's Henry Moore, Directed by Hugh Brody, in 1988.

He writes regularly for openDemocracy and contributes to many of its debates. He now also contributes essays to the New Statesman.