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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Glorious Referendum on the EU – Why it doesn’t represent the will of the peopleWith millions from Remain voting demographics excluded from the vote, and the result narrow, there's no reason for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSeven things Momentum should do nowAs Momentum celebrates its first birthday, it can boast of significant victories. But to win the country, it needs...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTheresa May, the end of Empire State Britain and the death of UnionismThe old British state is crumbling.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKForward Wales: five ways Welsh progressives need to take back controlThe fallout from Brexit is an existential crisis for the future of devolution and Wales’ so-called ‘progressive’ identity.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Daily Mail takes powerWhere does Theresa May's ideology come from? The Daily Mail, says Anthony Barnett in a taster from his forthcoming...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLeave may have lied, but it was Bush, Blair and Cameron who killed political honestyFrom Machiavelli to Cameron, there is a sad decline of truth in the age of Brexit.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe familiar axes of politics are changing, with momentous consequencesPolitical identities have changed significantly, and politics has shifted with them.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDeeper into democracy: the legitimacy of challenging Brexit’s majoritarian mandateWould a second European referendum be democratic?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy should we care that Exxon is lobbying the UK Government on electric vehicles?We shouldn't ignore the oil giant lobbying to stop the electric car revolution in Britain.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMedia attacks on Corbyn show he’s a threat, not an irrelevanceRecent Panorama and Dispatches episodes confirm: the media has never been so biased against a Labour leader.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat the Labour leadership candidates think about democratic reformThe Electoral Reform Society quizzed the Labour leadership candidates on electoral reform...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIt’s time to think about how we do referendums in the UKReferendums are now a thing in Britain. So we need to get better at them.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Welsh Interregnum (or reasons not to be cheerful)Worried thoughts on Wales and what is to be done.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAs A-level results come out, it's time to look again at our education systemJeremy Corbyn is right – England needs to repurpose its education system.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKProportional representation can offer democracy to all, not just to the majorityProportional representation can better reflect the messy, complex reality of collective self-rule.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime for a UK agricultural policy that doesn’t subsidise the richNow that the UK is leaving the disastrous Common Agricultural Policy, let's transform our farming for good.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit Britain and the political economy of undemocracy: part 2 – the leftWhile the right acts decisively to restore the established order, the Corbyn experiment eschews both democracy and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit Britain and the political economy of undemocracy: part 1 – the rightThe aftermath of economic crisis, followed by Brexit, has seen the dismantling of democratic norms in Britain. The...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKVideo: Black lives matter: shutdown
"1,562 deaths in police custody in my lifetime. 0 convictions". As Black Lives Matter protesters set up blockades in...
