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Published in: Home: OpinionLabour knows our democracy is broken. So why are its ‘reforms’ so weak?OPINION: Gordon Brown is on the money with his diagnosis of the problem. But his solutions aren’t nearly enough
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWe crunched voters’ data from 36 years of elections. Here’s what we foundThe Sun wot won it? Researchers dig into decades of voter data to find out who really swings elections in the UK
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Published in: Home: OpinionFirst-past-the-post was meant to deliver stability. It’s time to junk itOPINION: Our chaotic electoral system is the result of 60 years of tweaks to a fundamentally unjust base
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Published in: Home: NewsColston statue ruling is attack on right to protest, warn leading barristersThe Court of Appeal said today the ‘Colston Four’ should not have been able to use a human rights defence
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Published in: oDR: FeatureThe war in Ukraine, six months onoDR’s regular Ukrainian contributors write about the main issues facing the country after six months of war
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Published in: Home: AnalysisMinisters’ attacks on judges threaten UK democracy, warns new reportGovernment attacks risk giving the impression that the courts are being pressured to rule in Boris Johnson's favour
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoris Johnson’s party is dismantling the ways to hold government to accountThe Electoral Commission is only the latest target in the Tory party’s determination to destroy any semblance of scrutiny
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK’s post-Brexit review of ‘retained EU law’ risks undermining democracyThe government is seeking to disentangle domestic law from EU law – handing more power to unaccountable ministers
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionDid democracy in Tunisia fail or did it never succeed?The appointment of the Arab world’s first woman prime minister in Tunisia cannot hide the country’s dismal economic...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s presidential power-grab is a test for its democracyPresident Saied’s ‘constitutional coup’ on 25 July was a dark day for Tunisian and Arab democratization
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Published in: ourEconomyStep aside progressive patriotism – intergalactic humanism has arrivedNationalism will always be racist, no matter how ‘progressive’ it is. What would it mean to imagine a world beyond...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionProgressives must rally together to demand democracyBritish politics is utterly broken. Our parties must find a way to find a way to renew it.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesCOVID-19: can technology become a tool of oppression and surveillance?Technology is not inherently democratic and its human rights impacts are particularly important to consider in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab world between a formidable virus and a repressive stateWhat does the coronavirus pandemic spell for democracy in the Arab world?
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Published in: Global ExtremesResilience, radicalisation and democracy in the COVID-19 PandemicWith lockdowns, an already alarming situation of vulnerability to political manipulation is at risk of becoming a...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat does the coronavirus tell us about the West’s image of Asia – and itself?In a time of pandemic and radical uncertainty, we face tests of individualism, governance, globalised capitalism,...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat’s wrong with democracy?The Economist's Democracy Index 2019 confirms democracy's decline in Latin America and the world.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionDemocracy and charisma: a dangerous liaisonIn India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?
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Published in: ourEconomyFreetown Christiania: an economic 'nowtopia' at the heart of a European capital cityIf we know where and how to look, we discover that other worlds are possible in the here and now.
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Published in: ourEconomyWestern style ‘democracy’ in Africa is just a way of pushing the neoliberal agendaThe region has its own rich democratic traditions to draw from.
