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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Reactionary ImaginationAn elite-dominated public realm does not allow people to understand their true conditions, creating a vacuum filled...
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Published in: Shine A LightTheatre of Inhumanity: a damning portrayal of the UK asylum systemA new play shines a light on the dark side of the British asylum system, portraying with brutal clarity the inhuman...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEarly intervention for children pays; so let's ask the market to investIntervention into the early life of a child can be crucial in halting or preventing long-term problems. So if early...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiving with Fear: Part 4 of 'Reports from the Poverty Line'
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line. In the fourth of a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBarnett is wrong; the public had little to do with Murdoch's fallWas it the public's outrage that brought down the News of the World? And Ed Miliband's courage that has led to a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlue Labour's controversial ideas are good for Miliband and his partyThe Labour party would be the losers if they cut the Blue Labour project adrift due to misjudged comments on...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs the hacking scandal the British establishment's 'Napster Moment'?
There are two new models of crisis: the 'Wikileaks Moment' and the 'Napster Moment'. They involve the technological...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Brief History of Britain’s Power Elites: through Murdoch and beyond?War with Hitler’s Germany spelled the end for Britain’s old power elite. A new political class emerged, including...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPhone hacking: an investigator, a journalist and a lawyer give their verdict at the Centre for Investigative Journalism summer schoolA notable panel including Guardian head of investigations David Leigh, Bishop International investigations firm...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlue Labour: is there a baby in the bathwater?The star of Blue Labour, a key project influencing the re-shaping of the Labour party, appears to be waning, after...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSquatters in Britain: vulnerable, demonised, and soon to be criminalised?
As part of an ongoing crackdown on squatters, the government has released a consultation proposing the...
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Published in: 50.50Roma youth in the UK: 'burning down the library'
"We are really going back a few steps. . . . just lost expertise, data, everything . . . for me, it’s almost like...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJournalists should be hackers - but target the open web, not private phonesThe News of the World scandal has changed our perception of the term 'hacker'. But the technique of hacking is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGet ’em off benefits? Part 3 of 'Reports from the Poverty Line'
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line. In the third of a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLords reform should redistribute power, not promote "elective dictatorship"
A reformed upper House could provide a check on the power that the executive currently hold in Britain. Yet the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe EU approaches a constitutional moment
A retreat from the present unsatisfactory half-way house to a Gaullist ‘Europe des Patries’ would be an act of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFraud’n’error: tax avoidance and evasion. Part 2 of 'Reports from the Poverty Line'
Deborah Padfield, a citizen’s advice bureau adviser, returns to report from the poverty line – a part of Britain...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBook review: Parliamentarians, mavericks and trots
Bob Marshall-Andrews and Richard Wainwright were two MPs who, in very different ways, belonged to the honourable and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKClegg promised no back-door privatisation of NHS: new white paper opens the front door
With the government's White Paper, we are facing the full-scale privatisation of the NHS in England and Wales.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKeep Calm and Carry On…
The UK's government's terrorism Threat Level is confused and confusing, raising the Orwellian specter of a state of...
