It is all too easy to throw up one’s hands in despair at the advance of the populists. Easy, but wrong.
The fact that the ultra-conservative Brexiters are out to get the Belfast Agreement doesn’t mean progressives should abandon their critical faculties towards it.
A company is a company is a company—isn’t it? Actually, no. And this really matters: for as long as the company is treated in UK politics as a
The World Forum for Democracy 2017 discusses whether participatory democracy could be an antidote to populism.
Why civil society? In today’s complex and fast-changing societies, the state can neither be all-knowing nor all-powerful. There is thus a strong case for non-governmental organisations to provide grounded
Two fundamental errors block new thinking on the UK economy. The first is a failure to recognise, empirically, just how poor is the UK’s comparative, like-for-like performance. The second
Brexit is the incomprehension of a former imperial power, wistfully hoping to recreate a long-gone global sphere of influence.
Can education, notions of deliberative democracy and intercultural integration come together to rescue our dysfunctional democracies?
The latest crisis in Northern Ireland looks like déjà vu all over again. It’s not that the situation never changes but the remedy offered by London remains stubbornly the same.
What have we learned from the openSecurity experience as the section goes into hiatus? A lot. But governments, police and military, surveillance agencies? Not so much.
The popular outpouring in France, taken with the climate marches in September with which it would not at first be bracketed, may be a harbinger of change.
