The students that the government is hoping to dissuade from studying in France are the young people of its former colonies. How does this square with ‘patriotism as openness’?
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.
Just occasionally, the UK public gets reminded that AIDS isn’t over and done with. Not at home, and certainly not round the rest of the world.
Unguarded comments about "intelligence", "transcriptions of conversations" and knowing "what the Europeans are thinking" prompt fury in Brussels
Time is running out for UK corporations to show that the voluntary model works.
Big Pharma is hurting the NHS at its core – here's what we need to do, if we're bold enough.
It is a story told easily in numbers that eloquently, embarrassingly set out the scale of a problem, and the fairness and effectiveness lacking from a British industrial success.
Creating a movement that can have the impact XR aims for will require confronting the political as well as the moral challenges posed by climate change.
