The openDemocracy team has made its first update to a list that aims to be the 101 most useful web links on climate change. We also corrected a few broken
The voters won yesterday’s election in Britain, and all three major parties suffered existential defeats. Their leaderships immediately set about persuading themselves of the opposite, that a kick in
So it struck me as I was busily "knocking up the slip" in the West London marginal of Hammersmith and Fulham. Democracy is still delightfully old-fashioned. Mark my
New Zealanders can be a bold and pioneering lot. From participation in the first successful ascent of Everest, leading in the Americas Cup and providing an almost limitless supply of
"Climate change is the most important issue we face", says Tony Blair. Why, then, has it not featured in the UK general election campaign?. The question has been
Where do international agreements on climate change go after the Kyoto Protocol? The question seems premature to some, given the state of the Protocol, which came into force early in
People often asked me what openDemocracy actually stands for. I have always said (sounding ever more precious by the second) that it stands for openness, thinking hard, dialogue and, of
There was one moment when I thought perhaps I should vote for Blair, or at least stand up for those who will. It was when my old colleague and co-author
Tomorrow's vote in Britain: I In order to defend their journalistic independence The New York Times forbids its columnists from endorsing candidates or reporting how they will vote.
Tomorrow's Vote II - hang parliament! Tomorrow’s UK general election will have some world significance because voters (and abstainers) will take out their judgement on the main
A longer version of this article is published in Voice of the Turtle
A spectre haunts the British general election on 5 May 2005 the spectre of the Muslim vote.
A young Saudi blogger, Ahmed, on his experience of the first (municipal) elections in Saudi Arabia in 30 years in Global Voices. He describes how campaign posters bore the only
