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Ed Miliband’s global moment The election of a new leader of a national political party, especially one in opposition, is not often a matter of significance to wider issues of global security. The surprising victory of the 40-year-old Ed Miliband in the contest to lead... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • “Know-How”, “Know-What” and the politics of knowledge for social change When I was a PhD student in London in the late 1970s, I lived in a truly horrible house on the Archway Road just south of Highgate, damp, freezing cold, falling to pieces and full of people who were even lazier than I was. So as a form of light... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Ed Miliband: too light on Iraq The few lines with which Ed Miliband, the new Labour leader, dismissed the war in Iraq is a bad sign for his leadership. Unless he realizes why – and applies the lesson across the board, to other policy areas and decisions which he must take –... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Why trade unions are a good thing Ed Miliband's request to the NUJ at the BBC not to target the Conservative party conference and David Cameron's speech may very well assist him in seeking to demonstrate independence from the trade unions - and also even give him some... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • In defence of secularism The Pope’s recent visit to Britain has unveiled what the Catholic Church sees as its main threat nowadays and in the foreseeable future. It is neither the exponential growth of Islamic worshippers in Western societies due to immigration, nor... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Loneliness alert! Rounding up the unusual suspects Fire alarms at my postgraduate student house in London are always a ready excuse to hang out. Every time the highly annoying siren sounds off, I see students acknowledge it with a very odd mix of frustration and amusement. We clamber down the... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Could more women transform politics? In July Nick Pearce and Anthony Barnett began an OurKingdom debate on the significance of the equality of women in politics - and how this might be achieved. Michael Edwards takes up the the argument saying, “Although it is unfashionable to say... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • OK author Clare Sambrook short-listed for Bevins Prize Many congratulations to OurKingdom author Clare Sambrook who has been shortlisted for the prestigious Bevins Prize, established to recognize outstanding achievement in investigative journalism. Clare's relentless probing of the shameful... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Russia’s response to the EU’s human rights policy While there are clearly problems inherent in the EU’s policy on human rights issues in Russia (cf part one, The EU’s human rights policy in Russia: more than rhetoric?), it is also important to consider how the Russian political elite has... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles Born Illegal - The US Federal Analogue Act openDemocracy RECOMMENDS Liquid Modernity
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