In 2009 Tony Benn who died this morning made a video for the Convention on Modern Liberty, organised by openDemocracy and the Guardian.
Analysis / Defeating authoritarians: Notes from the Hungarian playbook What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime? By Dalma Vatai / 16 Apr 2026
Analysis / Orbán’s election defeat is a blow to the global anti-gender movement Europe’s great replacement prime minister lost on Sunday, and so did the global anti-gender movement By Sian Norris / 16 Apr 2026
Analysis / Landmark verdicts could unleash new legal playbook over social media harms In two US states, twin verdicts find tech giants Meta and Google liable for harms to young users on their platforms By Cristiano Lima-Strong / 27 Mar 2026
Opinion / The European: On the death of Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas has died, just as the world – of which he was, in many ways, a theorist – increasingly resembles, in the words of Stefan Zweig, the “world of yesterday.” Yet By Georg Diez / 20 Mar 2026
