The 2016 vote offered a binary choice of in or out. Any new vote must expand the conversation.
There is an alternative way of "letting the people decide" on an issue where MPs seem incapable of agreeing a coherent policy. The Greeks had a word for it: democracy.
For the past two years openDemocracy has been tracking down the secretive, wealthy donors trying to influence British politics unseen.
English Brexit voters may have voted not so much for the return of Empire, but for greater attention to England as the only stateless nation in the UK.
Let us have an end to fighting the referendum campaign ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Now is the time to get real.
The British people, failed by their natural representative, the Labour Party, opted for the nationalist radicalism of Farage’s UKIP. Thus, the demagogues won. But not those who voted for them.
From economic and climate policy, to Brexit and constitutional reform, Corbyn’s Labour doesn’t yet have the depth of ideas to capitalise on the government’s disarray.
Unguarded comments about "intelligence", "transcriptions of conversations" and knowing "what the Europeans are thinking" prompt fury in Brussels
Big Pharma is hurting the NHS at its core – here's what we need to do, if we're bold enough.
The Institute of Economic Affairs’ magazine distributed to tens of thousands of British schoolchildren promotes tobacco tax cuts, climate change denial, tax havens, and privatising the NHS – but doesn’t say where its money comes from
What could it possibly mean for a large and diverse set of people, the citizens of a country at a particular time and in a particular place, to share one will?
