Thomas Rainsborough was the highest ranking supporter of the Levellers in the New Model Army when he spoke in the Putney Debates in July 1647, and uttered the immortal words
The first day of deliberations was Women’s Day in Guatemala, and participants at the Nobel Women's Initiative conference had awoken to the sound of firecrackers in Antigua
First impressions
In 1998, nearly a decade after his influential post-Cold War piece, 'The End of History?', Francis Fukuyama addressed himself to the question of Women and the
But pirates have today, to deal with an increased presence of military ships; the United States leads a multilateral military force of some twenty states, and the European Union has
Introduction by Mark Perryman , editor of Breaking up Britain : Four Nations after a Union
Breaking up Britain is a book-length conversation between individuals, parties and social movements who with or
Can Englishness be re-claimed from the populist right? In this extract from Breaking up Britain Mark Perryman suggests what the key features of a post-Union progressive English identity would be.
In this extract from Breaking up Britain Charlotte Williams questions the degree to which post-devolution identities are any more inclusive or egalitarian.
We are often reminded that devolution is a
It was good to see a strong turnout of protesters filling the seats in the 2nd floor chamber at City Hall for the meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority chaired
Launched in 2006, the Nobel Women's Initiative (NWI) is a strategic vehicle of the women Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to leverage the visibility and prestige of the prize
openDemocracy is committed to promoting human rights and democracy through dialogue and debate. But a global debate without the female half of humanity is neither global nor democratic.
With this
April 21st 2009. Join the Group Read. Chapter 19. The basic solution
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Chapter 18 was depressing ---
They came, they butchered. And then they bolted. The fate of the invaders of Afghanistan over the last two centuries: the British in the 19th and 20th centuries and the
