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Published in: HomeChina and the West: the hedgehog's dilemma
China has liberalised significantly since the Incident of 1989, but America and Europe are coming to the realisation...
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Published in: openSecurityAttacks kill 38 on polling day in Iraq
Attacks on election day kill 38 in Iraq. Renewed peace effort for Israel and Palestine. US-South Korean military...
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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: openDemocracyUKAn Age of Anger: The London Review of Books and the British Crisis of Democracy
The British system of government and politics might be in endemic crisis, but it is not a golden era for radicals....
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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: HomeThe nuclear-weapons moment
The global effort to extinguish the nuclear peril needs to regain momentum. A bold act of leadership and imagination...
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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: 50.50The price of peace
“Peace processes are bad men talking to bad government and other bad men.....women in civil society are doing...
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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.
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Published in: openSecurityViolence and uncertainty underscore Iraqi elections
Insurgents strike polling stations as Iraq votes for its new government. Turkey withdraws its ambassador to the US...
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Published in: HomeA difficult week for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The ICTY's struggle to prosecute war criminals causes a further decline in credibility in times when progress is...
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Published in: 50.50This is my witness
The human voice has a way of piercing through you. Emily Stokes listened to the testimony of the women of Burma.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhatever you say Gordon, the war was illegal
A leading lawyer sums it up, Britain's attack on Iraq was illegal
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Published in: openIndiaIndia's big guns bazaar
Security is too important a question to be left to the defence sector alone.
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Published in: 50.50Burma may save its tigers and not its women
Cora Weiss reports on the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma - an overwhelming day of stories...