As the UK moves towards a referendum on its voting system there is a lot of justified grumpiness about the exercise but is it the fault of having referendums or those who called it?
Rupert Murdoch's News of the World has admitted that it illegally hacked into the phones of the famous and powerful, after years of denial. The really important story, however, is what this reveals about the corruption of state power in the United Kingdom by a global media conglomerate.
After months of slow-burn, the British phone "hacking" scandal (where the News of the World was shown to have gained illegal access to celebrity voicemails) has taken a dramatic turn. Rupert Murdoch's tabloid has finally admitted its guilt, and with that revealed a web of cover up and cronyism inv
The route to English democracy may be via its transport system
Anthony Barnett agrees with Juan Cole that humanitarianism sometimes trumps all other considerations. And this is the case in Libya today.
An English country town gets the royal treatment. But does it deserve it?
As the date of the AV referendum is confirmed, Anthony Barnett looks back to a speech he made, urging the Durham Union to vote for change.
The government has U-turned on the forests, though not alas on the Education Maintenance Allowance, so young lives will be felled if not young saplings.
This has been a really
openDemocracy's UK Section, OurKingdom, has published a 350 page Reader on the Winter of Protests that swept into British politics in November last year. They began as a student opposition to the tripling of fees for university education but immediately escalated, because of a much wider protest a
The Reader on the Winter Protests in Britain is now up! Freed download or scan its 350 pages
A campaign for Modern Liberty with which OurKingdom and openDemocracy are strongly associated gains legislative expression. Well done, and let's build on the achievement.
