John Kampfner, of Index on Censorship, Eric Kaufmann, from Birkbeck College, London, and Dominique Moisi, a founder of the French Institute of International Relation debated the global future of democracy in a particularly lively event in Jewish Book Week 2010. Ann Jungman was there
This is a review article published in the Time Literary Supplement of 5-11 August 1988
There was just one question in last night's leaders debate. Was Nick Clegg's popularity after the first debate just a bubble? That voters are looking for
The people of Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos and the other Chagos Islands speak out on Britain’s proposal for a Marine Protected Area
A survey of revolutions since 1989 shows them to be peaceful, driven by the educated and middle-class and seeking a democratic engagement with the wider world. Now it is our turn as the popular desire for real reform has lifted the Lib Dems onto its shoulders
The Liberal Democrat leader wrote this article for the Guardian in 2002. It is now being used against him by a hysterically melancholic tabloid press in Britain. We are proud to republish it.
Sunder Katwala calls for the BBC to broadcast the second general election debate
This handy summary of the today's newspaper coverage from Conservative Home' reported straightforwardly as: "Fleet Street mounts an operation to burst Clegg's bubble"
Tomorrow, I hope oD will publish an overview on the electoral insurrection now seemingly underway in Britain. In it I say that "popular desire for real reform has lifted
Mark Oliver's January report commissioned by Policy Exchange
David Graham responds to Mark Oliver's report on public service broadcasting reform
A genuine electoral insurgency from below against the corruption of the established order could reform British politics