Anthony Barnett (London, OK): As Gerry Hassan points out in his recent post on the new Labour leader in the Scottish parliament, trading life stories is becoming mandatory, It'
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In July a secret decree was signed by President Sarkozy creating an integrated database of everyone who the French state thought it might need to track
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): At the end of last month I wrote a post objecting to a phrase by A.C.Grayling. A written constitution should never be described as
openDemocracy/Russia was created last year. Two new articles on Abkazia demonstrate why it is a brilliant initiative.
The idea was that English readers around the world should be able
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): There was a short, strong overview of the threat of an authoritarian, corporate cash cow database state by A.C. Grayling in yesterday's CiF.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Tom Griffin spent a long time finding Stephen Glenn to write a post about the Lib Dem leadership contest. I'm afraid Tom didn'
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I just heard a clip of Brown being interviewed in Beiijing on the BBC 8 o'clock news. He used an extraordinary formulation about his
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Following my post about the fabulous call to modernity, fraternity and Britishness by Borders and Immigration Minister Liam Byrne, we are launching OK's summer
Many are. There is some wonderful openDemocracy coverage and in our sister ship openDemocracy Russia, with translations. Writers who have been there and know the history. Neal Ascherson just up
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Liam Byrne is the Minister of State for Borders and Immigration. Eloquent and presentable, he is according to the Spectator, tipped to become a Cabinet Minister
Anthony Barnett (London,OK): There is a great post by Sunny Hundal here - it's his reflections on his blog nation event. The larger problem, the way the
Anthony Barnett (London,OK): There is another spate of end of political party articles, with a stronger than usual theme of blaming the internet, triggered by John Lloyd as he
