Dan Hind is the author of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty and The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform. The paperback of The Return of the Public is out now on Verso. He tweets @danhind.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe people we might become: Personality and the organisation of knowledgeThe media has sold us collective hallucinations of ourselves, from Keynesian man to Thatcherite man (and woman). Can we now create something better? Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEntering the secret castle: A small step towards democratic public media?Last week the BBC gave a representative audience panel control of its Brexit output for one day. Could this ‘citizens juries’ type approach begin to transform our media?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe constitutional turn: liberty and the co-operative stateThe Anglo-American left needs to start taking constitutional change seriously.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe choice before the Labour partyDoes Labour wish to fight for a better deal within the system, or change the system?
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Published in: ourBeebA roadmap for the BBC’s support of local journalismInstead of strengthening the UK’s local news monopolies, here’s how the BBC could support civic journalism.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCorbyn should support a convention parliament or he will fail
If Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership he should try to reach agreement with all progressive groups for an electoral pact aimed at creating a constitutional convention in the new parliament, only this will build on the energy his candidacy has inspired.