A Scotsman explains that his middle-America, Tea-Party supporting relatives are good folk and its the British who have a problem if they can't see this
The Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief, Alan Rusbridger has published an important online overview of the ‘Fourth Estate’, and invited this response from Anthony Barnett, whose latest thoughts on the press, public service broadcasting and the BBC, the future of the web, Rupert Murdoch and democracy, argue
Cas Mudde was quite right to point out recently how liberal arguments are being used in the interests of illiberal attacks on Muslims. However, in the Dutch case this reflects anything but a progressive national consensus
We launch the first in an occasional series of openDemocracy meditations on the question: Is democracy a human right? This reply begins with Mandy Rice-Davies, lingers on the unfinished business of the Cold War, and returns via Confucius, Mohammed and Darwin to the digital revolution which has us
A gathering will consider the emergence of Englishness (or not)
A new book by Dan Hind provides a welcome set of proposals to democratise public debate through a system of citizen-led editorial commissioning, but his focus on the mass media ignores the potential of other more democratic channels of communication.
A can of worms is opened at the 54th London Film Festival
A delicate papal visit to Britain was in the end a diplomatic success. All the more reason to examine the ideas it advanced, says Michael Walsh.
The advance of populist anti-Islamic forces in the liberal bastions of northern Europe - Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden - appears to reflect a betrayal of these societies’ renowned social tolerance. But there is a more subtle logic at work, says Cas Mudde.
The Scottish political debate needs to decide to think and act big to respond to growing concerns over inequality, the economy and the state of the public realm.
