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OurKingdom works to investigate and illuminate the crisis of democracy in Britain and analyse how its failings can be redressed.

We encourage original debate untrammelled by party political loyalties. 

We ask how we as citizens can secure liberty, human rights, self-government and real democracy. ...more on OurKingdom

• "Doublethink": the latest threat to women's rights in Spain
  Liz Cooper
• Abortion in Ireland - a small step forward
  Ann Rossiter
• Daring to speak: militarism and women’s human rights in Burma
  Jennifer Allsopp and Jessica Nhkum
• Anti-immigrant sentiment: time to talk about gender?
  Nikandre Kopcke

Can Europe make it? is a digital space to debate the achievements and shortcomings of the European project, from an open-minded yet critical perspective.

Don't miss
Esplanade, our Editors' blog 
Subterranean Politics (our partnership with Mary Kaldor's team at the LSE)
Reluctant radicals (with Counterpoint)
Oecumene: citizenship after orientalism (with the Open University)

Editors' pick

• Chemical weapons, the Middle East, the UN Security Council and now, Syria
  BOB RIGG


• Spectacle and surveillance in Brazil
  FLAVIE HALAIS


• Guns, drugs and dollars: getting global drivers of local violence on the post-2015 agenda
  ERWIN VAN VEEN

In the months following the start of the Arab Revolutions, articles and analysis poured into openDemocracy from contributors across the Middle East and Europe. Gradually, the impact of Tahrir Square began to extend well beyond the Middle East as democratic inspiration travelled from east to west. Arab Awakening tries to capture that inspiration and use it to help us read a rapidly changing world.

"As students of politics is it is vital to study the power of imagination." -Professor Charles Tripp, SOAS

OurNHS is a new three-year project, hosted by openDemocracy, dedicated to reinstating a genuine National Health Service in England.