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Published in: openEconomyDon't tax the rich any more: it will cost us more than it raisesShould the marginal rate of income tax be reduced for very high earners? Jeremy Fox argues that there is no obvious...
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Published in: openEconomyA return to financial health is simple: Glass Steagall plus transparency
Financial regulation in the wake of the credit crisis is a simpler matter than the re-moralising advocated by Roger...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFascists and anti-fascists alike treat protest like a game to be won
Unite Against Fascism: 1, English Defence League: 0. That was the score being passed around after the EDL failed to...
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Published in: HomeNetworked activism meets the dominant culture of technocratic managerialism in Westminster
The first full-time executive director of the Open Rights Group (and one-time openDemocracy technology director)...
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Published in: HomeIs Assange the "world-spirit embodied"? A Hegel scholar reports from the Žižek/Assange Troxy gig
WikiLeaks combats the hidden but constant brutality of institutionalized violence, not just by the news content it...
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Published in: openEconomyWhat's the mampus all about? The merging of the shopping-mall & the campus in urban and social web design
Plans for a mall on my doorstep reminds me of the malls that Facebook and Google are building on our screens. Email...
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Published in: Shine A LightLondon, a city of slavery?
An eighteen-year-old trafficked girl Y, subjected to years of exploitation and abuse, broke her silence today in an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHas England's higher education come to this: “I was personally punched and thrown down the stairs by officers.”
The London police defended the Minister of Higher Education by showing that even universities are to be subject to...
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Published in: HomeTreason of the heart. A conversation with David Pryce-Jones
David Pryce-Jones in conversation with Tony Curzon Price about his latest book on radicals of the left and right...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhen conniving is not collusion: The Murder of Rosemary Nelson
Was there state collusion in the killing of Rosemary Nelson, the solicitor who was blown up by loyalists at her home...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLondon Metropolitan University: Crimes against Humanities
The university with the UK's highest proportion of poorer students is being assaulted by its own administration. All...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMy Royal Wedding: free from it (but there is no escape)
Our Editor-in-Chief seeks escape and recounts the company he kept
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Royal Wedding Reality CheckThe Royal Wedding Reality Check invites you to express your genuine opinions on the event, whether you're a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK Uncut, responsibility and the logic of networked activism
Much of the critical rhetoric attacking UKUncut's choice not to denounce the violence on March 26th fails to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy UK Uncut can and should denounce the violence
UK Uncut must condemn the violence on Saturday 26 March. The network has formed around common views - such as an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow to defeat the Coalition
There is enough energy in the public's opposition to the cuts and the marketisation of public services to frustrate...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOn violence, protest and London's March for the Alternative
How do we pass moral judgment over the use of political violence? What of situations that lack a basic strategy, as...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMemorandum to the London School of Economics Council warning it not to accept a grant from the Qaddafi Foundation
Fred Halliday (1946-2010), openDemocracy author and Director-Designate of the LSE Middle East Centre, 2006-2008, did...
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Published in: openEconomyThe grip of the banking lobby on British politics seems unlikely to soften soon
The political moment for reform of the banking and shadow-banking industries seems to have passed. UK politics is in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKImage of the Year: the Royals photo symbolises the productive disorder of the student protests
The shocked faces of Camilla and Prince Charles as they are attacked by a group of student demonstrators is now an...
