By Tan Copsey
All around the world it seems conservatives are becoming conservationists. From David Cameron, leader of the conservative party in the UK, to John McCain, Republican frontrunner for
By Jessica Reed
I said to the Defence Secretary (Des Browne) that the Army won’t let the nation down, but I don’t want the nation to let the
By Josh Gregory
David Keen, an academic at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has written an intriguing new book: Endless War? Hidden Functions of the 'War
By Anthony Barnett
The Social Change Exchange, held on 11 October in Birmingham, England’s second city which Jessica Reed blogged yesterday, was called by Britain’s Network for Social
Richard Young
Did everyone's favourite little dictator set off a nuclear bomb or just so much smoke and mirrors? With scientists still in a quandary over this question,
What does absolute uncertainty look like? Does it have a shadowy shape, a doubtful smell, a quizzical voice... or perhaps a perplexing number?
Anybody following this week's release
By Jessica Reed
Yesterday Anthony Barnett and I went to Birmingham to take part in the Social Change Exchange convention (see our flickR pictures set). Around 250 people from all
by Kanishk Tharoor
Please forgive the liberal titling in a language (Catalá) I can't speak, but those in the footballing know, however, will catch the point, and perhaps
So, I'm in Denmark representing openDemocracy at the New Media Days conference in Copenhagen. Doc Searls gave the opening session today, and I joined him and three others
By Richard Young
That Kiran Desai has won the coveted Booker Prize with her novel The Inheritance of Loss should not perhaps be such a surprise to the bookies who
"The aim of our patrol," it seems, is no longer "a question rather droll." Researchers and conservationists have grown increasingly alarmed by the violent behaviour of
By Jessica Reed
The United Nations have been accused of lacking a sense of initiative and strongwill when dealing with the Darfur genocide crisis, but this won't be
