I went to the launch of Phillip Blond’s ResPublica think tank and had a parallel but very different shock to Guy Aitchison at the London Citizens at the Barbican.
Also published today at the Guardian's Comment is Free
Today sees the publication of the Scottish government's independence white paper. Last week Jim Murphy, Scottish secretary,
Kevin Rudd’s apology to the 'Forgotten Australians' highlights the difficulties of dealing with Britain's imperial past while promoting a positive view of 'Britishness'
ARTHUR: I am your king!
OLD WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
OLD WOMAN: Well, how did you become
A look at London Citizens, the grass-roots community organisation, and its recent Autumn Assembly
After James Naughtie’s laugh a minute, cliché-ridden put down of Scotland and the town of Kilmarnock, I listened to his latest jaunt on the Today programme into the northern territories with a mix of fear and trepidation
There's just a short time left to contribute to POWER2010, the grassroots campaign to renew and strengthen our democracy from the bottom up.
You may not have noticed, but a battle important to parliamentary democracy commenced yesterday.
Human Rights Watch publishes a disturbing new report, "Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan"
Have just listened to Jim Naughtie’s deliberately downbeat, dour and depressive journey north to Kilmarnock for the Today programme, searching everywhere for doom and gloom and not surprisingly finding
The final HMIC report on the G20 puts another nail in the coffin in the current oppressive model of protest policing.
It is day six of the 'scandal' over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in
