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The health of UK democracy is compromised by its narrow funding base , Stuart Wilks-Heeg Just 224 large donations from fewer than 60 sources funded two fifths of all spending by the top three parties across a decade of British politics. This is far too narrow a base for the health of UK democracy. Another week, another party donor... Read more » Memory incompatible: the Archangelsk affair continues, Catriona Bass In September last year, the FSB brought criminal charges against historian Professor Mikhail Suprun and police colonel Aleksandr Dudarev for publishing a ‘Book of Memory’ to victims of Soviet repression. The case, which came to be known as the... Read more » US military changes mind over ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on homosexuality, Luke Heighton The Pentagon has today released the results of its survey into the attitudes of current service personnel towards the proposed repeal of the US military’smuch-maligned ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy established in 1993. Currently the... Read more » The Left and the Big Society VII: Hilary Wainwright of Red Pepper , Niki Seth-Smith In this latest interview in our Big Society Challenge series, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper, contrasts the coalition's Big Society with ideas of self-organisation that took root in the '60s and '70s. She advocates an... Read more » Putin’s retreat — beginning at the gates of Moscow, Vladimir Pastukhov Perhaps without realizing it himself, Vladimir Putin has become the second victim of Sergei Sobyanin’sartless PR. The first victim was Dmitry Medvedev, who lost, rather than won, points in the campaign organized by the state TV channels... Read more » Positive women human rights defenders, Alice Welbourn We are racing past rolling fields of scattered snowfall, en route to Heathrow airport and Kenya for an international meeting to address the enormity of gender-based violence around the world and the huge impact that it has, both as a cause and as a... Read more » More Recent Articles Wilders and the Dutch press: scapegoater hunted down as a witch, Tjebbe van Tijen 2010 US mid-term elections: the shellacking , Robert L.Borosage The causes of the Greek crisis are in Greek politics, Takis S Pappas Full reserve banking, Sylvia Rowley A pass for tree-seekers and free people in Italy , Tiziano Fratus Mario Vargas Llosa's journey: power and individualism, Iván Alonso Shakespeare, neither simply English nor British, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Willy Maley North Korea reveals details of uranium enrichment plant, Rukeyya Khan Decapitated dogs and burning bureaus: the year Kazakhstan did democracy, Ryan Gallagher Should violence against women in the UK be seen as hate crime?, Julia Long openDemocracy RECOMMENDS Don't Shoot the Clowns Jo Wilding Best Price £1.09 or Buy New £6.74 • View comments •
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