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Who needs a bank?, Peter Johnson

Should we make banks better, or just make them redundant? Peer-to-peer currency schemes like bitcoin.org offer the possibility of networked money without banks. Should democrats embrace the possibilities?

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Lukashenka - what are the prospects for spring in Belarus?, Joerg Forbrig

Europe’s last dictator struggles for his survival. Europe should help the process along by applying targeted sanctions

Captivated by the upheavals facing Arab autocrats, few in the West have noticed the troubles of another...

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Turkey's “passive revolution” and democracy, Kerem Oktem

A near-decade of rule by strategic, business-friendly, moderate Islamists has transformed Turkey’s political dynamics. Now, the prospect of a third successive electoral victory seems to offer the Justice & Development Party (AKP) a...

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The Kremlin, the billionaire and the liberal opposition, Dmitri Travin

Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov recently became leader of the moribund party “Right Cause.” The Kremlin clearly had a hand in this and billionaires are increasingly expected to take on tasks the government finds difficult, but President...

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The British centre-left, Blue Labour and tradition: a response to Stuart White, Robert Tinker

In response to Stuart White's critique of Blue Labour, Robert Tinker proposes that the centre-left adopt a dynamic understanding of tradition

This article is the third in an OurKingdom series on Blue Labour, following

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Digital democracy, Plato, and web 2.0, Giorgio Fontana

Far from being the natural and easy remedy to the evil of bureaucratic delegation, digital democracy risks becoming its inconvenient appendix - a deceitful form of participation, which can turn out to be the very contrary of productive...

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New College disaster and the challenge of A.C. Grayling, Anthony Barnett

In a bold new initiative, philosopher-proprietor A.C. Grayling has launched a for-profit university amidst a storm of opposition. Could it be that the prospectus is misleading, and the venture undemocratic and wrong in principle?
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"Jam" vs "Jilted": interview with co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation, Oliver Huitson

The Intergenerational Foundation is a new think-tank founded to research fairness between current and future generations in the UK. We interview the co-founder, Shiv Malik

Through both demographic and policy changes, the nation has...

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