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“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

About Jonas Fossli Gjersø

Jonas Fossli Gjersø holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Find him on Twitter @JFGjerso

Articles by Jonas Fossli Gjersø

This week's editor

Phoebe Braithwaite is openDemocracy’s submissions editor.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Constitutional conventions: best practice

Jeremy Corbyn – a mainstream [Scandinavian] social democrat

Jonas Fossli Gjersø 9 June 2017

If there is such a thing as a ‘best practice approach’ in public policy the Nordic model would probably be it and, at any measure, a useful benchmark for Britain to move towards. First published on September 19, 2016.

Back to the future for economic inequality

Jonas Fossli Gjersø 14 November 2014

We are returning to Victorian inequality. Why is it tolerated?

Israel - the last of the settler colonies

Jonas Fossli Gjersø 10 September 2014

Examining the history of colonialism suggests that Israel today is more analogous to apartheid South Africa or French Algeria than to its settler state counterparts the United States or Australia.