Last summer, Democratic Audit published an explosive paper on the growing influence of the corporate and financial sectors on British democracy. OurKingdom is publishing a series of updates on the paper, of which this is the first.
The leading religious authority of the Church of England has disappointed many of the hopes invested in him. Rowan Williams has indeed failed to address the challenges facing the Church and the Anglican Communion, not least its historic entanglement with state power. This is the project that his s
openDemocracy’s founder Anthony Barnett writes to you...
A new epoch of democratic reform in Britain is needed to respond to the transformation of the British state, the disintegration of the old constitutional order and the rise of corporate power, now that hope of a Labour Lib Dem alliance for democracy is over. The pure but totalising strategy of the
'Underclass', 'feral', 'feckless': these terms have gained new currency after England's August riots. Although not explicitly racist, together they form a coded language that casts working class and Black communities as the 'enemies within'.
Our author ponders the leadership quality in Texas, from whence he nearly sprung. His asterisks speak volumes.
If al-Qaeda comes under more pressure, it will switch strategies again, which will then make drones irrelevant.
Multiculturalism is an inclusive philosophy. Its potential for integrating newcomers and minorities into society is undermined by false notions of its tendency to produce separatism and poverty.
The occupation of Zuccotti Park was only the visible tip of a movement whose significance and power goes well beyond the tent city. The next moves of the movement need to remember the nature of the symbol they are building. The author's 2c: they should virtualise while spreading physical meetings
Reflections on Jeremy Paxman's book, 'Empire: What ruling the world did to the British'.
Spartacus, a monstrosity of sentimentality, only survives in annual repeats on daytime television; Full Metal Jacket is regarded as one of the great 'Nam movies. Strong thematic and structural parallels, however, bind the two films together, and the nauseous incontinence of the earlier film can he
In The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst explored the iconoclasm of the Thatcher years. But in A Stranger's Child, he seems to portray England as a country self-defeatingly focused on its past
