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Published in: openDemocracyUKBabar Brown and the "new politics"If we needed to know that Britain's political system is a wreck, Gordon Brown's speech yesterday was confirmation....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSpeak Easy launches Wednesday night at the Oxford Union
Over at Next Left, Stuart White is promoting what looks like an excellent initiative bringing Compass, the Lib Dems...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs Blair unhinged?
A response to Alex Holland's analysis of Tony Blair's testimony to the Iraq Inquiry
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Published in: openDemocracyUKStress, nationalisation and choice
Privatisation is often defended as increasing 'choice', a mantra invoked by politicians at every election. But this...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKChecking Blair's 'calculus of risk' - WMDs and regime changeAt the Chilcot inquiry, Blair claimed the risk of terrorists being supplied WMDs by rogue states justified a policy...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPresident's questions
Watch a riveting and almost unprecedented exchange between President Obama and the congressional Republicans
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGutted: council staff wreck council flatsKatharine Hibbert recalls her experiences living in a London squat: councils trashing vacant flats, all to prevent...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKI'm overdosing tomorrow - care to join?The 10.23 campaign is organising a national homeopathic overdose to protest pseudo-science and the wasting of taxpayer money
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom Lloyd George to Tony Blair
As Tony Blair's testimony to the Iraq Inquiry reveals his informal style of sofa cabinet, Daniel-Joseph...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSocial Movements and Political Rights
The POWER 2010 campaign has launched a vital debate on the ways and means of reforming British democracy. One...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime to abolish the "Department of the Prime Minister"
One of the most significant but largely unnoticed changes to the way we are governed in recent years has been the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKilling is killing - or is it?
The tragic story of a mother convicted of murdering her disabled son
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"I'm not a racist, but..."
Isn’t class-prejudice and anti-foreigner-prejudice just as bad as race-prejudice?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKProsecuting war crimes: the courts must be independent
Britain’s friendship with Israel leads to further potential breaches in British governance, human rights and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Britons never, never, never shall be slaves’
Brown’s national roadshow about Britishness was a flop – an expensive and ill-conceived project, initiated by a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTony Blair and the imperial temptation in Britain and America
Ahead of Blair's testimony on the Iraq war, it is worth considering a recent exchange in the American blogosphere...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRevisiting Blair and Campbell on Iraq
Anthony Barnett goes back to the openDemocracy archives
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat price liberty?
Henry Porter gives his account of Saturday's What price liberty? debate in Cornwall blogged on OurKingdom last week...