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
A front line account of the experience of being tested rather than taught under Blair. A recent UK school-leaver reports on what is was really like for the new generation educated since the Tories were in power
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
The excellent Avaaz are polling their members in Britain on whether they should run a positive campaign for democracy (read hung parliament and an alliance for reform) and defy the
The fightback by the UK two-party system has begun with the accusation that anything else is ‘anti-politics’. But it is democratic politics that has broken through the spin
