Polanyi’s views were the exact opposite of his contemporary, Joseph Schumpeter, who famously defined democracy as giving people a choice over which elite group would rule over them.
Nothing will be as good outside the EU as LEAVE suggests: the world won't collapse as REMAIN implies. It is a gigantic distraction, deliberately engineered by competing parts of the elite.
Can it be achieved from within existing political institutions, or does it require new sources of power to be built in society and the economy as a base for new political institutions?
Current proposals for European cooperation with Libya to contain migration and refugee flows are ill-advised.
This book is not just illuminating. It is a call to moral awakening and to intelligent, determined and humane political action.
Representative democracy can only strengthen if it resorts to more participatory and deliberative mechanisms, a new generation of public action built on co-construction.
British voters on June 23 may also decide the future of globalisation/ financialisation. If Britain votes to leave the EU, globalisation may be over, and with it an era in history.
Readers can judge for themselves why this contribution by a veteran politician to the UK prime minister's volume on tackling corruption was not included. Today, we are pleased to share it with our global readership.
There is an intermediate path that the SNP may well take while it charts a path ahead, in the event of Brexit.
The EU is creating an ever-growing population of illegally detained refugees, including vulnerable men, women and children, who are forced to live in appalling conditions and without recourse to justice.
