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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.
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Published in: ourEconomyDude! Where’s my democracy?People turn to authoritarian leaders not because they distrust democracy but because our system is fundamentally...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe decline of Erdoğanist authoritarianism: a new chance for “democratization” in Turkey?The Istanbul municipal elections might be the beginning of the post-Erdoğan period. But is it the end of authoritarianism?
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Published in: ourEconomyReclaiming the commons through state ownership? Maybe notTransnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. We need local, democratic and...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIs the internet to blame for the rise of authoritarianism?Three perspectives on whether the internet is having a damaging impact on democracy.
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Published in: TransformationDemocratic distress in Europe and the USA: a transatlantic malaise?What could Americans and Europeans learn from each other about the looming crisis of democracy?
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
