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Does Europe control Britain? (and does oD control the BBC?)

14 December 2005

I love waking up to the sound of openDemocracy contributors in the morning. Gisela Stuart and John Palmer were on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, continuing the debate they started on oD over the European Union and democracy.

Listen here. It's a streamed audio file - you get a nice report first, followed by Stuart & Palmer joining other guests to mull it over

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