David Hayes is a co-founder of openDemocracy. He has written textbooks on human rights and terrorism, and was a contributor to Town and Country (Jonathan Cape, 1998). His work has been published in PN Review, the Irish Times, El Pais, the Iran Times International, the Canberra Times, the Scotsman, the New Statesman and The Absolute Game. He has edited five print collections of material from the openDemocracy website, including Europe and Islam; Turkey: Writers, Politics, and Free Speech; and Europe: Visions, Realities, Futures. He is the editor of Fred Halliday's Political Journeys - the openDemocracy Essays (Saqi, 2011)
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Published in: HomeEngland, a country of the mindThe tendency to press reality into a heritage mould traps England in political aspic, says David Hayes.
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Published in: Home9/11, ten years on: reflections
A terror-filled day of mass murder in the eastern United States imprinted itself on the world's consciousness - and...
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Published in: HomeEngland’s two solitudes
A four-night outbreak of riotous disorder in London and other English cities in early August 2011 is a potent...
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Published in: HomeDerick Thomson at 90: Gaelic poet in the world
Ruaraidh MacThòmais (Derick Thomson) has as poet, scholar, teacher and editor made a profound contribution to Gaelic...
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Published in: HomeThe London bombs, five years on: a digest
The coordinated bomb-attacks on London’s transport network on 7 July 2005 (“7/7”) left dozens dead and hundreds...
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Published in: HomeThe foreign correspondent: James Cameron, 1911-85
A voice of wry observation and quiet authority that made humane sense of distant events to a domestic public helped...