Clare Coatman - openDemocracy

Building a Good Europe

While the mainstream Brexit debates have centred around the buzzwords of immigration and business, the 'Building a Good Europe' report explores visions for improving the EU, through radical yet feasible policies.

By Clare Coatman

/ 22 Jun 2016

Building a Good Europe

While the mainstream Brexit debates have centred around the buzzwords of immigration and business, the 'Building a Good Europe' report explores visions for improving the EU, through radical yet feasible policies.

By Clare Coatman

/ 22 Jun 2016

Combating violence with forgiveness: teenage knife-crime in London

A review of UNPROVOKED, a new play about girl-on-girl knife crime in London.

By Clare Coatman

/ 16 Nov 2011

First Past the Post: a damning report on a system that 'fails the fairness test'

A damning report on the first past the post voting system has been released by ippr. Clare Coatman, of the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign, introduces the report.

By Clare Coatman

/ 4 Jan 2011

My New Labour education

A front line account of the experience of being tested rather than taught under Blair. A recent UK school-leaver reports on what is was really like for the new generation educated since the Tories were in power

By Clare Coatman

/ 21 Apr 2010

Liberty and the Tories

I never thought I would ever set foot in a Conservative party conference, but there I was Monday morning in central Manchester registering for three days with the Tories as

By Clare Coatman

/ 6 Oct 2009

Daily Mail forges the 'unforgeable'

Yesterday the Daily Mail revealed that they have cloned a UK identity card. It took Adam Laurie (a hacker who has been used by government departments to guard against terrorism)

By Clare Coatman

/ 7 Aug 2009

Tory proposals on Lords reform

The Constitution Unit published a report on Friday by leading Tories Sir George Young and Andrew Tyrie calling for all new members of the House of Lords to be ‘term

By Clare Coatman

/ 20 Jul 2009

Civil Society: Enabling Dissent - joint oD/Carnegie event

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 4:30pm-6:30pm, Tuesday 28 July 2009 (Tea and coffee served from 4:15pm) The Carnegie UK Trust Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the

By Clare Coatman

/ 15 Jul 2009

Video of Helena Kennedy's speech

Helena Kennedy announced Real Change: the open politics network in her key note address at the Compass conference. The video of it is now available to watch in two parts:

By Clare Coatman

/ 22 Jun 2009

The beginnings of Real Change... meeting #0001

At Saturday’s Compass conference Real Change: the open politics network held the first of what we hope will be 1,000 meetings over the next three months, culminating in

By Clare Coatman

/ 16 Jun 2009

Lies, damn lies and politicians

Mark Thompson, supported by Andy Hinton, has performed a statistical analysis linking the MPs exposed by the Daily Telegraph for excessive expenses to the size of their majorities. Very interestingly

By Clare Coatman

/ 21 May 2009