Adam Ramsay

Adam Ramsay is a former editor, UK editor, and special correspondent of openDemocracy. He now writes the Abolish Westminster newsletter, and his book of the same name will be published by Faber on 5 November.

DemocracyWatch: Governments roll back environmental protections

Under the cover of the pandemic, governments across the planet are trashing laws which protect the planet.

By Adam Ramsay

/ 12 Aug 2020

DemocracyWatch: Governments roll back environmental protections

Oxford and other top British universities under fire for sending students to illegal Israeli settlements

Amnesty says the universities are “actively linking themselves to a whole system of illegality, discrimination and exploitation”.

By Adam Ramsay and Walid el Houri

/ 3 Aug 2020

Oxford and other top British universities under fire for sending students to illegal Israeli settlements

DemocracyWatch: Pandemic strands thousands at borders as temperatures soar

Restrictions on movement can kill.

By Adam Ramsay

/ 30 Jul 2020

DemocracyWatch: Pandemic strands thousands at borders as temperatures soar

DemocracyWatch: Journalists gagged in the name of COVID

Some have died doing their job

By Adam Ramsay

/ 16 Jul 2020

DemocracyWatch: Journalists gagged in the name of COVID

DemocracyWatch: The pandemic is a long way from being over

COVID-19 is only just arriving in some of the world's poorest communities.

By Adam Ramsay

/ 1 Jul 2020

DemocracyWatch: The pandemic is a long way from being over

Why does England vote Tory?

Progressives will never dominate English politics without confronting Churchillism.

By Adam Ramsay

/ 21 Jun 2020

DemocracyWatch: Arundhati Roy warns of ‘genocidal climate’ in India

Indian Muslims are being labelled “corona-jihadis”.

By Adam Ramsay

/ 17 Jun 2020

DemocracyWatch: Arundhati Roy warns of ‘genocidal climate’ in India

Edinburgh to add new plaque to prominent Dundas statue after Black Lives Matter protests

As statues of prominent racists topple around the world a huge, controversial monument in Edinburgh is to acknowledge its subject’s connections to slavery.

By Adam Ramsay

/ 10 Jun 2020