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Why did a mother run onto the M4 to protest against Heathrow?

ISABELLE ANDERSON

Heathrow expansion must be stopped.

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Neoliberalism is dead. Long live new liberalism!

STEVE HANSON

The liberal consensus is over, says Steve Hanson. The chilling signs are everywhere as this year ends. The left must pick it up and reshape it rather than let it fall.

A Kurdish response to climate change

ANNA LAU and ERDELAN BARAN and MELANIE SIRINATHSINGH

Conversations with the Kurdish Liberation Movement on ecological society and democratic confederalism.

Institutionalizing populism

GRAHAME THOMPSON

A ‘national conversation’ about important matters is becoming almost impossible under these circumstances. Half the population does not want to listen.

Why did a mother run onto the M4 to protest against Heathrow?

ISABELLE ANDERSON

Heathrow expansion must be stopped.

Neoliberalism is dead. Long live new liberalism!

STEVE HANSON

The liberal consensus is over, says Steve Hanson. The chilling signs are everywhere as this year ends. The left must pick it up and reshape it rather than let it fall.

A Kurdish response to climate change

ANNA LAU and ERDELAN BARAN and MELANIE SIRINATHSINGH

Conversations with the Kurdish Liberation Movement on ecological society and democratic confederalism.

Institutionalizing populism

GRAHAME THOMPSON

A ‘national conversation’ about important matters is becoming almost impossible under these circumstances. Half the population does not want to listen.

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Our Beeb - Book Launch and Drinks Reception

Ellie Mae O'Hagan 25 November 2016

Limited space is available for an evening with some of the country's top experts and influential thinkers on the BBC.

The UK remains complicit in horrific human rights abuses abroad due to shoddy policy document

Maya Foa 25 November 2016

The UK government is complicit in the execution of political prisoners and protesters abroad and there are serious flaws in the government policy that is supposed to prevent this.

21st century politics: Is the party over? Or is it just kicking off?

Indra Adnan 25 November 2016

What does a modern political party look like?

Paid columnists for openDemocracyUK on the environment, corporate power and democracy

Adam Ramsay 24 November 2016

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“Build democracy and it spreads like a virus"

Oliver Sylvester-Bradley 23 November 2016

A Q&A on Platform Co-ops with Nathan Schneider, as part of our focus on Platform Co-ops and the forthcoming open2017 conference.

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Aberfan and Orgreave: The BBC in moments of national trauma

Ioan Marc Jones 23 November 2016

During moments of national trauma, the public turns to the BBC for shared experience and understanding. But how well is the corporation doing at honouring the experiences of the victims?

Institutionalizing populism

Grahame Thompson 22 November 2016

A ‘national conversation’ about important matters is becoming almost impossible under these circumstances. Half the population does not want to listen.

Why did a mother run onto the M4 to protest against Heathrow?

Isabelle Anderson 22 November 2016

Heathrow expansion must be stopped.

Why trade unions need to get serious about new media in 2017

Aaron Bastani 22 November 2016

The far right funded new media networks and took the highest office in the world. It's time for the left to learn from that.

NHS passport proposals are just more grubby politics from May and Hunt

Kailash Chand 22 November 2016

The NHS needs a proper response to its problems - not distraction with false claims about so-called 'health tourism' and with un-implementable plans.

Drones, Baby, Drones

Richard Norton-Taylor 22 November 2016

Drama going beyond journalism at the Arcola theatre in London, until 26 November, Box Office: 0207 503 1646

Hidden Warfare 2: Drones

Richard Norton-Taylor 21 November 2016

In an attempt to give them a better image, the British MoD has renamed them Protector rather than Predator.

Neoliberalism is dead. Long live new liberalism!

Steve Hanson 21 November 2016

The liberal consensus is over, says Steve Hanson. The chilling signs are everywhere as this year ends. The left must pick it up and reshape it rather than let it fall.

We must reform Universal Credit to prevent it from penalising low-earners

21 November 2016

When the government announced plans to cut £4bn of in-work social security in its summer budget last year, it was widely condemned by commentators and organisations for hitting some of the poorest wo...

The UK’s not-so-secret war in Syria

Abigail Watson 21 November 2016

The SAS is clearly playing a large, sustained role against ISIS in Syria, so why does the UK government still refuse to comment?

Iraq abuse allegations: Resist, deny, hide

A.T. Williams 20 November 2016

Theresa May has made it clear she intends to follow previous governments in tarnishing Iraq abuse allegations as false. Final day of our 7 day series.

Rising tide of allegations suggests ‘systemic abuse’ by British military

A.T. Williams 19 November 2016

Rogue military personnel? Or a deliberate policy of abuse? Day 6 of our 7 day series on alleged abuse by British soldiers in Iraq.

Trump-style universities headed for the UK

Feyzi Ismail and Des Freedman 18 November 2016

Britain's Higher Education Bill paves the way for dodgy universities in the UK.

Welcome to my asylum home. I’d offer you a seat — if I had one

John Grayson 18 November 2016

Meanwhile a parliamentary inquiry into asylum housing lumbers on over ten months . . . and today in Leeds the Home Office holds yet another 'consultation' on a sorry business.

Trump, the judiciary and politics

Geoffrey Bindman 18 November 2016

As the UK media react in anger against the High Court’s involvement in Brexit, America prepares to wave goodbye to the broadly liberal politics upheld in the US Supreme Court.

British torture in Iraq and the state’s ‘corporate memory loss’

A.T. Williams 18 November 2016

Hooding, sensory deprivation, stress positions. . . methods used illegally in 1970s Northern Ireland are deployed again. (Day 5 of our 7 day series).

A Kurdish response to climate change

Anna Lau, Erdelan Baran, and Melanie Sirinathsingh 18 November 2016

Conversations with the Kurdish Liberation Movement on ecological society and democratic confederalism.

No wonder social care is failing our sick and elderly, if this is how it treats its workers

Richard Whittell 17 November 2016

Social care work is big business – and its business model rests on severely exploited workers who often aren't even paid the legal minimum wage.

From war to occupation in Iraq

A.T. Williams 17 November 2016

The fall of Saddam Hussein and the death of Baha Mousa. (Day 4 of our 7 day series)

Constitutional unchoice in Manchester

Steve Hanson 16 November 2016

How the choice between city devolution or evolution is false and new regional constitutions risk being simply bolted on to the existing constitutional mess.

The Chilcot Report and the Politics of the Iraq War

A.T. Williams 16 November 2016

Why, in our democracy, is there so little appetite for proper public scrutiny? (Day 3 of our 7 day series)

A drowned boy, an apology, an attack on ‘activist, left-wing human rights lawyers’

A.T. Williams 15 November 2016

Today we explore the death of Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali. (Day 2 of our 7 day series)

We need to talk about how we talk about Prevent

Anthony Cornish 14 November 2016

The Prevent strategy can be improved through discussion, debate and greater engagement from all sides. However, before the strategy can be improved, we need to reform the way we talk about it.

Lessons for Trumpland: adventures with demagoguery in the Middle East

Adam Ramsay 14 November 2016

From a demo in Istanbul to the quiet racism of Israeli security, it's time for Americans to understand what modern authoritarianism looks like – and learn how to resist.

A conspiracy cooked up by ‘activist left-wing human rights’ lawyers?

A.T. Williams 14 November 2016

Government and media have denied, dismissed and derided allegations of abuse by British soldiers in Iraq. Over 7 days we’ll interrogate a very British scandal. Day 1: Attack the lawyers.