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Is Clegg abandoning liberalism?, Stuart White If you announce in advance what you are going to say at a lecture you expose yourself to other lecturers examining your principles beforehand, as Stuart White of Oxford University does here,cross-posted with thanks from Next Left Nick Clegg's... Read more » oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 22nd 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss You know attitudes are changing when you get a thoroughly mainstream media outlet to run a program like this which doesn't resort to flaccid stereotypes, one that largely supports reforming marijuana laws without having to say so. Ironically,... Read more » UK Channel 4’s own ‘Horror Story’ continues, Oliver Huitson Following on from their recent report on local government, last Thursday Channel 4 broadcast a quite astonishing programme by Martin Durkin: Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story. For reasons to be established, the broadcaster seems intent... Read more » Tbilisi: tearing down the past, George Nonidze ‘Every time I walk across Baratashvili bridge and raise my camera to take my favourite view of the Old Town, I now lower it thinking, where has it gone?’ said the tourist returning to Tbilisi after a year. Tourists, local Georgians and... Read more » Ireland: the challenge of failure , Fintan O’Toole The long-threatened arrival of the IMF bogeymen was a major loss for Ireland as a proud, independent nation. But this should not blind us to the opportunity to reinvent and restore our sovereignty. On the News at One on 18 November, theRTÉ... Read more » Ethiopia: the aid-politics trap, Tom Porteous Ethiopia is the largest recipient of western development assistance in Africa. In 2005-08, aid to Ethiopia more than doubled - from $1.9 billion to $3.4 billion. Yet the country’s domestic politics are becoming less democratic and more repressive.... Read more » Prophecy is suggesting the possible, Diana Francis Is conflict transformation possible? Would it not be more realistic to approach peace as 'mediated tension', perhaps with some 'transformative moments'? These were the questions with which Jim Whitmanbegan a recent discussion at... Read more » More Recent Articles Universities need reform - but the market is not the answer, Michael Collins Putting the 'American business model' in its place, John Kay Parallel worlds: how connected Russians now live without the state, Andrei Loshak Seven character tests for Britain's Labour leadership, Nick Pearce War crimes trial of Congolese militia leader begins at International Criminal Court, Daniel C Giacopelli After the party: Dilma and Brazil, Arthur Ituassu Germany, Ireland, and eurozone politics, Katinka Barysch Imagine a Scotland where Thatcherism never happened , Gerry Hassan Gold does not glister, Dennis Nottebaum and Eric Gardner This Enchanted Isle: place, politics and England, Nick Pearce openDemocracy RECOMMENDS Don't Shoot the Clowns Jo Wilding Best Price £1.09 or Buy New £6.74 • View comments •
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