openDemocracy’s founder Anthony Barnett writes to you...
Damien Hirst's most revolting spectacle will go on display in an exhibition of Blairism that should be an occasion for national shame - instead it will compete for gawping crowds with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. If you are from the UK, go and see it dressed in black.
Persistent undermining of medical evidence that children are being harmed. Officials misleading ministers over a case of child sex abuse. Clare Sambrook’s evidence to the House of Lords suggests our democracy is in serious trouble.
A new epoch of democratic reform in Britain is needed to respond to the transformation of the British state, the disintegration of the old constitutional order and the rise of corporate power, now that hope of a Labour Lib Dem alliance for democracy is over. The pure but totalising strategy of the
UK governments talk loudly about controlling immigration but seem unable even to count in who visits Britain. Now, it seems, private incomers have been waived through in advance. Who were they?
The sub-Hollywood spectacle of the new Batman film - being shot in Wall Street - provides a striking contrast to the unheroic determination of the protesters in Zucotti Park.
There was for a moment a breath of democracy in the crisis of the European currency and an attempt at honesty. But the Greek referendum was not to be. This was heavy duty blackmail says openDemocracy founding editor. Takis Pappas could not disagree more.
Occupy London is fundamentally different in nature to the occupations in Madrid and Greece. It is small, but determined, and is on sacred ground: the skirts of St Paul's Cathedral. But how long will the anti-city in the City last?
Will the activists who tried to occupy the London Stock exchange be part of the start of a revolutionary movement?
The creative protesters of UKUncut generated exceptional media coverage of the issue of tax avoidance by Britain's super-rich at the end of 2010. For the first time a group, the Brighton 9, are on trial after they super-glued themselves to a TopShop window. An effort has been mounted to link their
