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  January Competition - Win Oscar Wilde "Disobedience" T-Shirt

  Written by: Mark Perryman All articles by Mark Perryman

  The latest addition to Philosophy Football's 'dissenters' T-shirt range features these words from that iconoclastic...

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  Ignore Islam4UK, don’t ban them

  Written by: Jonathan Birdwell All articles by Jonathan Birdwell

  In a democratic society, the decision to ban an organization when it is not directly responsible for violence is...

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  Sunday morning with James Fishkin and POWER2010

  Written by: Rosemary Bechler All articles by Rosemary Bechler

  Rosemary Bechler gives her account as an observer of the POWER2010 Deliberative Poll.

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  No fare deal for London or Venezuela

  Written by: Alex Holland All articles by Alex Holland

  Not many Londoners can be happy as they grope through the frozen murkiness of the commute to their first days back...

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  POWER2010 Deliberative Poll on Channel 4 News

  Written by: Guy Aitchison All articles by Guy Aitchison

  POWER2010 Deliberative Poll on Channel 4 News

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  The Missing Value in British Politics

  Written by: Nick Couldry All articles by Nick Couldry

  In this taster of his forthcoming book, Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism, Nick Couldry...

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  Is shopping all bad?

  Written by: Neal Lawson All articles by Neal Lawson

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  Northern Ireland's crisis need more democracy not less

  Written by: Trevor Smith All articles by Trevor Smith

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  Fishkin on deliberative democracy

  Written by: Stuart Weir All articles by Stuart Weir

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  Leaders' troubles could shake devolution in Northern Ireland

  Written by: Tom Griffin All articles by Tom Griffin

  It has been a strange couple of weeks in the politics of Northern Ireland. In a striking coincidence, the leaders of...

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  To be a party of the Union, the Conservatives must also be a party for England

  Written by: David Rickard All articles by David Rickard

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  UK citizens gather to disuss how to reform the system

  Written by: Guy Aitchison All articles by Guy Aitchison

  This weekend sees a landmark event in the POWER2010 campaign to reform British democracy. Ordinary citizens from...

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  Political lessons from 1910

  Written by: Sunder Katwala All articles by Sunder Katwala

  As we face the prospect of a Conservative Government, how we imagine our system ought to work will return to haunt...

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  ID database will track NI numbers

  Written by: NO2ID All articles by NO2ID

  The Home Secretary has admitted in a Parliamentary answer that the Identity and Passport Service is collecting...

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  Funny old world

  Written by: Stuart Weir All articles by Stuart Weir

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  Living in a world of make-believe: the mythmakers of the globalising age

  Written by: Gerry Hassan All articles by Gerry Hassan

  Despite the failings of the neo-liberal model, the media still uses its advocates in City institutions, financial...

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  Clegg on the attack

  Written by: Stuart Weir All articles by Stuart Weir

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  A New Year Letter to Independent Candidates from Terry Waite

  Written by: Guy Aitchison All articles by Guy Aitchison

  The next Parliament looks set to see a large intake of new MPs, quite a few of them independents. But chances are...

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  Dear Mandy

  Written by: Thomas Ash All articles by Thomas Ash

  A satirical video complaining about Britain's proposed Digital Economy Bill

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  Beyond Copenhagen: what kind of bottom-up climate activism do we need?

  Written by: Rupert Read All articles by Rupert Read