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Published in: openDemocracyUKLabour spilt over referendum on disproportional AV voting systemWas there ever a political gathering that combined the sheer magnitude of cynicism and spinelessness on display at...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy was an English Parliament referendum not on the POWER2010 shortlist?
OurKingom publishes an exchange between Anthony Barnett, Guy Aitchison and Gareth Young on the question of why a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat price liberty? Discussion in Truro this Saturday
Details of an event at Truro College on Saturday 23 January
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDebating equality at the Fabian conference
So, despite all the media frenzy about “class war” in response to a few jibes by Brown at PMQs, the government looks...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK Home Office: Unwelcome arbiters of culture
The Home Office’s ludicrous and harsh clampdown of invited non-EU artists and academics to the UK is stifling the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat ideas came out of the Deliberative Poll and why?
As readers of OurKingdom will know, POWER 2010 has just launched a nationwide poll to choose five proposals for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnti-fascist MEP threatens legal action over expulsion by Tories
Edward McMillan-Scott MEP may take legal action against the Conservative Party after an internal appeal panel upheld...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEuropean Court rules against stop and search, so why are our judges so weak?
Back in 2003 the police used stronger stop and search powers from the government’s anti-terrorism laws to harass,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKElitism, Philistinism and Populism: the sorry tale of British Higher Education Policy
It can hardly be a coincidence: a key government adviser proposing a massive rise in university fees just as the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJanuary Competition - Win Oscar Wilde "Disobedience" T-Shirt
The latest addition to Philosophy Football's 'dissenters' T-shirt range features these words from that iconoclastic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIgnore Islam4UK, don’t ban them
In a democratic society, the decision to ban an organization when it is not directly responsible for violence is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSunday morning with James Fishkin and POWER2010
Rosemary Bechler gives her account as an observer of the POWER2010 Deliberative Poll.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNo fare deal for London or Venezuela
Not many Londoners can be happy as they grope through the frozen murkiness of the commute to their first days back...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPOWER2010 Deliberative Poll on Channel 4 News
POWER2010 Deliberative Poll on Channel 4 News
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Missing Value in British Politics
In this taster of his forthcoming book, Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism, Nick Couldry...
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