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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Reactionary Imagination
An 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 system
A 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 invest
Intervention 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 fall
Was 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 party
The 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 school
A 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 phones
The 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...