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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe long war on stop and searchTomas Mowlam reports on a six-year court battle surrounding Britain's flawed stop and search legislation
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Tories get the burglar vote...Labour's disgraceful new attack on the Conservatives' opposition to their DNA database
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Published in: oDRGrozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMPs WANTED: FOR CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY
Power2010's campaign to bring change to UK politics is stepping up a gear.
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Published in: openSecurityBurma publishes first of five new election laws
Burmese military junta unveil laws for elections later this year. French navy captures 35 Somali pirate suspects....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe cannot protect freedom by law aloneIn the second review of the book on the rule of law by Lord Bingham, the former lord chief justice, Keith Ewing...
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Published in: oDRDedovshchina: bullying in the Russian Army
While bullying (see our Soldier’s Tales) is common to all armies, the aberration that is dedovshchina in Russia’s...
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Published in: oDRA Soldier's Tale 9: changed, but not utterly dehumanised
In his final letter home from the army our conscript Tolya “finds” a mobile phone, is pursued by a mad officer and...
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Published in: Shine A LightTake one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010
A shameful case of the imprisonment and deportation of a minor by the UK Borders Agency.
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Published in: oDRWomen’s day makes a lot of cents
On Women’s Day in Russia you really get to see what your price tag is
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Published in: oDROlympean blow at the Kremlin
Russian national pride has been badly dented by poor performance at the winter Olympics. It is being widely read as...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKI have delivered and I'm not done yet, the Minister who is doing the most to reform Britain's constitution replies to John Jackson
The UK's Justice Minister says he needs no epitaph, Britain's constitution has been reformed over the last three...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTowards a new on-line politics: OurKingdom and Liberal Conspiracy
One of Britain's best blogs is re-organising and so is OurKingdom
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere Foot Failed
Michael Foot, Labour's leader from 1980 to 1983, died this week. For all his personal qualities his passionate...
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Published in: oDRPartition Ukraine? I think not
It is irresponsible to fan the flames of partition as Ethan Burger does in his openDemocracy article ”Could...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKParliament, heal thyself
The party leaders had proclaimed it as a wake-up call. They were united in their calls for urgent and far-reaching...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAre the Tories the new Levellers?
Dan Hannan and Douglas Carswell lay claim to the radical tradition of the English Levellers.
