Stuart Weir looks back on the campaign for democratic reform in the UK
It's not just the end of a year and of the decade. I suspect 2008-9 will go down as the end of an era: a pivotal transition
As Copenhagen stutters to its conclusion, our attention should return again to what individual countries can do to tackle climate change absent a global deal sufficient to the problem. Most
The ESRC's 'Britain in...' series - dry, humourless, safety-first academics spend pages saying nothing
Don't be fooled again - or perhaps you knew? Anyway, I live in Cambridge which the Lib Dem MP David Howarth has just abandoned for life in an ivory
With opinions polls continuing to show tentative signs of a narrowing Conservative lead, talk of a hung parliament is growing. This has a distinctive significance for Northern Ireland, where signs of a political opportunity for local parties will be closely watched.
As the festive season approaches the political and media classes play their own party game which is as familiar as ‘pass the parcel’: guess the election date.
The end game
Gordon Brown gave a short and partisan history of public service delivery in his recent speech at the Institute for Government. The Institute, by the way, was set up last
In recent years neuroscientists have discovered amazing things about the human brain. Free will and consciousness are, it appears, at least partly illusions. A literary movement in the early twentieth
Scotland's nationalist government projects the confident vision of a country moving towards independence. But the cramped nature of much public debate inhibits the renewal it seeks, says Tom Gallagher.
Many things have changed in the last year: how we think of our politicians, the economy, bankers, the state, and yet a large part of our political classes, corporate opinion
Two weeks ago, in conjunction with Channel 4 and Dispatches, openDemocracy published a careful pamphlet on the Pro-Israel Lobby in Britain by James Jones and Peter Oborne. You can
