Rosemary Bechler, completing a Cambridge doctorate on villain heroes from Milton to Byron, then worked as a university teacher, in political journalism and in the peace movement, becoming the Chair of the National Peace Council in 1995-6. In 2000, she co-founded Peaceworkers UK, absorbed into International Alert as its training wing, and joined the team piloting openDemocracy. She was European and international editor, editing the book of the Convention on Modern Liberty: The British Debate on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Imprint academic 2010) and openDemocracy Editor until Magnus Nome was appointed Editor in Chief in 2012. She edits Can Europe Make It?, has recently published with David Adler, DiEM25’s A Vision for Europe, (Eris, second edition, 2020), and is a qualified lead facilitator in Stafford Beer’s Team Syntegrity – a cybernetic protocol for non-hierarchical conferencing.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Oscar Wilding of Johnny Depp
There is a wilful quality to these destinies, but one extending far beyond the tortured protagonists coopted into...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionProtecting people, saving lives
What explains UK resistance to putting in place a national system of local track, trace and isolate?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Losing elections and other windows of opportunity
"Progressives have a particular set of hurdles... most of which boil down to convincing others they can 'get things done'."
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Published in: HomeWhere Toby Young draws the line
Young draws the line all over the place, but not without a certain logic.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Whatever happened to Dunkirk spirit?
What is it? Can we learn from it, and could it "see us through coronavirus"?
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Published in: HomeEvelina isn’t herself?
Whenever a law court let alone a tabloid newspaper takes an undue interest in a rape victim’s mores, we hear an echo...