This report covers the period from 23 October to 11 December 2007; a relatively short span of seven weeks, in comparison with the previous report. But though brief, the phase
The last four months at openDemocracy have been a period of transition that is yet unfinished. At the end of the first quarter came two great departures: the evacuation of
The October 2007 edition of the international anti-fascist magazine Searchlight has a topical article ("The browning of the BNP") on what it identifies as the intellectual affinity
7 July 2007 is a melancholy date in modern British history, the second anniversary of the London bombs which took the lives of fifty-two travellers on the city'
The two months from 17 April - 19 June 2007 at openDemocracy have been the occasion of a strong body of accumulating work on several editorial fronts. The regular output of
The dominant argument in Europe seems to change with every decade. In the 1920s it was recovery from war and inter-state rivalry; in the 1930s, the rise of fascism
The attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 were the prelude to a still unfolding global conflict. In the week of their fifth anniversary, openDemocracy asked our
A year after the suicide-attacks in which four young British Muslims killed fifty-two travellers on London's transport network, what has been learned and what has changed?
After eighteen months of intensive planning clarifying ideas, fundraising, networking, discussion, administration, recruitment openDemocracy launched as a live website on 13 May 2001. The very first article we published was
Ali G, comedian
Ali G: Now, I's here in ditzy Clerkenwell, da home of lost causes, and I is speaking today to a group of five people who
The Clerkenwell area of London, a place rich in history - religious, architectural, literary, political - was openDemocracy’s home for eight years. From the archive, the itinerary of a guided tour around it made by the team in December 2001.