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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: oDRIn memoriam Nastya and Stas
Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov were gunned down in a neo-Nazi contract killing a year ago. In this moving...
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Published in: oDRA soldier’s tale (3): hospital, then what?
In this third excerpt from his letters, our Russian conscript ends up in hospital, with time to reflect on what lies...
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Published in: Shine A LightRoll calls, body searches and sex games
What Parliament isn’t being told about children’s lives inside a UK detention centre.
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Published in: oDRKyiv's crisis: the EU role
On the eve of Ukraine’s election, Andreas Umland rebukes Europe for its indecisive policy towards Ukraine. By...
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Published in: oDRA soldier’s tale (2): trying to blend in
In this second letter home our new conscript Tolya is starting to settle in to his two-year stint in Russia’s army....
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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Published in: oDRRussia’s foreign policy: modernise or marginalise (1)Russia’s foreign policy is outdated, according to the distinguished foreign affairs analyst Dmitry Trenin. In the...
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Published in: HomeBelarus: love and paranoia
A Belarusian novel encourages citizens to question their own role in perpetuating the regime that governs them. The...
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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: oDRPost-Soviet integration: does the CIS work?2010 sees the 19th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. In the first of this two-part review of the structures...
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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: openSecurityDutch inquiry concludes the Iraq war 'was illegal' as Tony Blair’s spin doctor presents evidence at Chilcot inquiry
A Dutch inquiry concludes the Iraq war ‘was illegal’ as Alastair Campbell presents his evidence before the Chilcot...
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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...
