A new major exhibition of the man who was England's greatest sculpture ignores, yet borrows from, the controversial re-assessment on the 1980s that Moore was the artist of a labour movement at once mighty but defeated and will be seen as the most awesome witness of human carnage of the First World
HEALTH WARNING This is an article from the Guardian, Friday 26 Aug 1988 (very slightly corrected) published as part of an archive of essays on Henry Moore, including from Art
An archive article published in Art Monthly in November 1986)
This is a review article published in the Time Literary Supplement of 5-11 August 1988
What are the agendas, ghosts and demons lurking behind the call for an English Parliament?
There was just one question in last night's leaders debate. Was Nick Clegg's popularity after the first debate just a bubble? That voters are looking for
A survey of revolutions since 1989 shows them to be peaceful, driven by the educated and middle-class and seeking a democratic engagement with the wider world. Now it is our turn as the popular desire for real reform has lifted the Lib Dems onto its shoulders
This handy summary of the today's newspaper coverage from Conservative Home' reported straightforwardly as: "Fleet Street mounts an operation to burst Clegg's bubble"
Tomorrow, I hope oD will publish an overview on the electoral insurrection now seemingly underway in Britain. In it I say that "popular desire for real reform has lifted
A genuine electoral insurgency from below against the corruption of the established order could reform British politics
The excellent Avaaz are polling their members in Britain on whether they should run a positive campaign for democracy (read hung parliament and an alliance for reform) and defy the
The fightback by the UK two-party system has begun with the accusation that anything else is ‘anti-politics’. But it is democratic politics that has broken through the spin
