Digital rights and freedoms: Part 1
This article launches a new section of the Great Charter Convention dedicated to debate and analysis of democracy, politics and freedom in the digital age. It is clear that we are at a crucial...
View ArticleDigital rights and freedoms: Part 2
More than rights, a set of guiding principles is needed to counterpose to the reigning ideals of ‘security’, ‘growth’ and ‘innovation’. Alternative ideals, perhaps, such as democracy, health and...
View ArticleAlan Rusbridger: The world after Snowden
The debate over the impact of Edward Snowden’s intelligence leaks has been obscured by “muddle and fog”, particularly in the United Kingdom, according to Alan Rusbridger. The Guardian’s editor-in-chief...
View ArticleThe Cambridge Election Podcast
From the University of Cambridge comes ELECTION, a weekly politics podcast; asking the questions that no one else is in the run-up to the British General Election with the most interesting people...
View ArticleIn new gods do we trust?
Do you expect the machine to solve the problems? In a wide-ranging interview with the Director of the Open Rights Group members of Open Democracy discuss bulk collection, state bureaucracies, the...
View ArticleDemocracy for our Digital Future: Seven reasons why ‘We, the People’ should...
We are in a curious and uncertain period for the British state, its antiquated constitution and ways of doing politics. A number of serious challenges are on the horizon and it is unclear how much...
View ArticleDemocracy for our Digital Future (Part II): The battle for privacy,...
Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy, opened the discussion on digital freedoms on an optimistic note by predicting that the UK will have a codified constitution in the next 25 years and can...
View ArticleDemocracy for our Digital Future (Part III): The public realm, parties and...
The gathering heard from the historian David Marquand whose latest book Mammon’s Kingdom explores the history and values of the public realm and its relationship to democracy. The public realm is an...
View ArticlePornography and digital rights
One of the Internet’s most awe-inducing features is its ability to serve up whatever piece of content you need, whenever you need it. Whether you’re looking for videos of cats riding Roombas, the...
View ArticleDigital Rights and Pornography – A child protection catch-22 or lazy policy...
"Our rights are being infringed more and more on every side, and the danger is that we get used to it. So I want to use the 25th anniversary for us all to do that, to take the web back into our own...
View ArticleCommunication in the 21st Century: A conversation with Tom Fletcher, author...
Dr Tristen Naylor, Oxford’s Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies, chatted with Tom Fletcher, the former British Ambassador and Downing Street foreign policy advisor, about his new book, Naked Diplomacy. In...
View ArticlePrimaries as Sports and Spectacle: Sports Metaphors in Twenty-First Century...
‘The Brawl Begins’, an article about the 2016 primaries in The Economist provides the most overt manifestation of how a discourse of sports has permeated contemporary political reporting. Describing...
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