It has been a wonderful sunny spring ‘bank holiday’, the strange term for a Monday that turns a weekend into an official three day break in the UK. It ended
Japan is having its own dillemas about how to ammend the constitution. Women's eNews has a great article about a national "family values" debate has sprung
In his introduction to this debate, Ian McEwan stressed the importance of good science.
He is right to do so, although as US Senator John McCain has put it: For
Today's Guardian follows five days behind the 28 April edition of openDemocracy in publishing Aubrey Mayer on urgency of political action on climate change (see here).
In his
As they waited for their parents to be interviewed by Human Rights Watch, refugee children drew pictures with crayons on paper. When the aid workers saw the images, they began
It was Polly Toynbee that did it for me in her renewed call for voting reform. No more single issue reforms of the British constitution will do. I used to
I was thinking to write this blog every working day until Britain (or England) has a democratic written constitution. It would be a form of penance and protest. Protest at
Yesterday saw the launch of Ben and Jerry's climate college, intended to train young ambassadors for climate change.
It's the initiative of two ice cream magnates
openDemocracy's great Dominic Hilton will be on BBC's FiveLive tonight talking about "how to get British yoof' engaged in politics, or something". You
Apparently, 2005 is Einstein Year and on that occasion Sandy Starr & co at Spiked! have surveyed 250 scientists and educators (including 11 Nobel winners) about what they believe is
Aubrey Meyer argues today that US governments have been right to reject the Kyoto Protocol.
A lot of people don't agree with him. We'll be hearing
