As the date of the AV referendum is confirmed, Anthony Barnett looks back to a speech he made, urging the Durham Union to vote for change.
The government has U-turned on the forests, though not alas on the Education Maintenance Allowance, so young lives will be felled if not young saplings.
This has been a really
openDemocracy's UK Section, OurKingdom, has published a 350 page Reader on the Winter of Protests that swept into British politics in November last year. They began as a student opposition to the tripling of fees for university education but immediately escalated, because of a much wider protest a
The Reader on the Winter Protests in Britain is now up! Freed download or scan its 350 pages
A campaign for Modern Liberty with which OurKingdom and openDemocracy are strongly associated gains legislative expression. Well done, and let's build on the achievement.
Who was the child of Mubarak's speech: each of his Egyptian "children", or the juvenile terror who just won't give up his toys? But the "revolutions of the normal" are too powerful not to prevail
The campaigning organisation 38 Degrees has reached a new level with its Save Our Forests Petition, and is now a national player. Now is the time for congratulations, but also for a word of friendly warning.
Blair, Coulson, Cameron: what is going wrong with British government? The BBC knows how to report it but seems unable to understand it.
What is progress? Could our societies grow richer but everyone get more miserable? Is output the best measure of a nation's success? Such questions bring openEconomy and OurKingdom together to host The Happiness Debate.
In its spacious coverage of the story of P.C. Kennedy, aka Mark Stone undercover environmental activist, the Daily Mail looks for the upside. At the end of its account
Modern democracy does require something more than a cynical set of operators negotiating with corporate power while misleading the voters and spinning the press. Associational democracy is a good place to start for any government casting about for an alternative. But first you must accept its diag
