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- Walter Benjamin, 1936

About Tony Curzon Price

Tony Curzon Price was Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy from 2007 to 2012, where he is now contributing editor and technical director. He blogs at tony.curzon.com

Articles by Tony Curzon Price

Students – please be a bit less conservative!

Tony Curzon Price 2 December 2010

Was education in the UK, before the overhaul of the Browne report and the cut in funding, really a golden age?

openDemocracy comments moving to Disqus

Tony Curzon Price 29 November 2010

Why we're moving commenting on openDemocracy over to Disqus

Expected launch: beginning of December.

UK Welfare: radicalism says do nothing

Tony Curzon Price 13 November 2010

The UK Department of Work and Pension's workfare proposals are wrong. The current system is not perfect, but works in a pragmatic way. It could be made better by decentralising the administration of benefits

The unfolding story of democracy

Tony Curzon Price 3 November 2010

openDemocracy's editor-in-chief surveys the last two months of oD coverage

Currency wars: China buying time

Tony Curzon Price and Charles Diamond 13 October 2010

China is being pressed to revalue the yuan; Thailand has imposed limits on money flows into Thailand; Brazil is appealing for an end to competitive devaluations ... the currency war between China and the USA will have disturbing political repercussions. (Audio conversation, 45 mins)

Quick plug for our custom search provider, Wikiwix and their new Wiki/Twitter search

Tony Curzon Price 7 October 2010

Wikiwix has been our custom search provider for a while, and they've now launched a nice wiki and twitter search product

Celebrating the fanatically normal

Tony Curzon Price and Maciej Zaremba 7 October 2010

Sweden needs to reinvent itself around the idea of constitutionalism in order to create a future that is truly shared between new Swedes and older. An interview with Maciej Zaremba (audio, 45mins)

The idea of the nation and the surge in Sweden's xenophobic right

Tony Curzon Price and Lars Tragardh 4 October 2010

The social democrats and the moderate right in Sweden have both abandoned the idea of the nation, leaving it to the extreme right. Listen to Professor Lars Tragardth of the Institute for Civil Society Studies at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm on the Swedish election result (audio, 34mins)

Always waste a good crisis: reflections on King's call to the Trade Union Congress

Tony Curzon Price 22 September 2010

The UK's coalition government should come clean: the cuts are about much more than deficit reduction. The project to reform the state is an important one that cannot be built on the pretense of "There is no alternative"

Hawking kills gods, philosophers

Tony Curzon Price 8 September 2010

Rationalist humanism goes beyond scientism

Dissing Assange

Tony Curzon Price 7 September 2010

Why does TechCrunch decide to join the chorus of insinuations about the sexual habits of Wikileaks' Julian Assange?

Knotty independence: who guards the BBC

Tony Curzon Price 3 September 2010

The Director General of the BBC was photographed coming out of Downing Street with notes about how the national broadcaster will cover the government's unpopular spending cuts. To understand the BBC's reaction, you need to think of it as a business

Media freedoms and the constitution in South Africa

Tony Curzon Price and Pierre de Vos 31 August 2010

Professor Pierre de Vos, South African constitutional law expert, in conversation with Tony Curzon Price on the Information Bill; the ANC is a complex coalition that will ultimately act in a trustworthy way with freedom of the press

How serious are the assaults on press freedom in South Africa?

Tony Curzon Price and Anton Harber 30 August 2010

The proposed Information BiIl and Media Tribunals are a serious assault on press freedom in South Africa. They ultimately come out of the internal wranglings of a party that needs not fear the loss of office

The playthings of humanity

Tony Curzon Price 8 August 2010

Fulfilment does not come from self-government in Toy Story 3. Can Pixar ever let the Toys go free? See Related Articles for Jeremy O'Grady's reply

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