All three UK political parties talk of "localism", but this is meaningless so long as local government lacks proper constitutional power and independence.
On November 5, the campaign published a detailed rebuttal of the UK government’s recent statement on child detention
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 British government must make the Cabinet Manual - the closest thing the UK has to a written constitution - public.
The early announcement that Matthew Elliott, head of the radical right-wing group The TaxPayers’ Alliance, would be heading the “No” campaign, has led most mainstream commentators to the lazy
A new report shows that British media horizons are shrinking
A mischievous quote from Blair's Labour Home Secretary
Is the current campaign to overhaul the electoral system motored more by the needs of a disconnected elite than by popular demand?
The rhetoric and tone of a recent Channel 4 News piece on local council spending is more reminiscent of the Tax Payer’s Alliance than a quality public service broadcaster.
The Conservatives oppose changing the UK's election system to the Alternate Vote in the coming referendum. But now the prospect of losing becomes attractive as AV could give the Coalition five more years.
Will Hutton’s latest book on British political economy is uncannily of its time. In arguing that ‘fairness’ should be the measure of all political and economic relations, writes William Davies, he has performed a crucial service in erecting some principles by which the ‘fairness’ of coalition poli
Congratulations to openDemocracy author Clare Sambrook who has been named winner of the Paul Foot Award 2010 for her reports on the UK's shameful detention of asylum seekers' children.
