Suzy Dean (London, The Manifesto Club): Following last Wednesday's demonstration outside Parliament for a referendum on the EU constitution (Lisbon Treaty), by the aptly named ‘I want a
Lee Waters (Cardiff): The decision of the Coalition Welsh Assembly Government to scrap car parking charges at some hospitals from April has provoked an intemperate debate. "New NHS apartheid
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I've written relatively little in OK over the past week and a half. I have been depressed by a double whammy on Wednesday 20th
Jon Bright (London, OK): Hazel Blears had a crack at this new technology stuff that everyone is talking about few days ago in a speech to the international e-Participation
Stuart Weir & Andrew Blick (Cambridge & London, Democratic Audit): Two direct action stunts: Greenpeace activists climb onto an aircraft that has just landed at Heathrow from Manchester; a Plane
The Israeli army has left more than a hundred Palestinians dead as it withdraws from some of the heaviest fighting seen in Gaza since the 1980s. Gazan officials report that
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"The secret is out - idiot elements of the media have forced the early withdrawal from Afghanistan of Prince Harry.
But it doesn't matter. Despite the prince&
This is written in response to the OurKingdom article on the new Institute of Public Policy Research booklet entitled 'The Power of Belonging' by Ben Rogers and Rick
Jon Bright (London, OK): According to this article in the Sunday Herald, Gordon Brown is refusing to call Wendy Alexander's Scottish Constitutional Commission a commission, so as not
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): If like me you are in favour both of more democracy and of the European Union and that the EU should become more democratic, what argument
David Hayes (London, openDemocracy): I sent this letter to the Spectator on 16 February concerning a review it published of Tony Parsons's book, My Favourite Wife. It was
John Jackson (London, Mishcon de Reya & Unlock Democracy): "Setting the People Free" is the title of the book, published in 2005, in which John Dunn explored the
