What is Starmer’s story?
England’s summer riots have violently exposed the failure to resolve our national question.
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Anthony Barnett
Anthony Barnett is a writer, campaigner and the co-founder of openDemocracy.
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My return to reading, the white working class, and an adieu to Rosemary Bechler
The issues of democracy and nationalism have never felt so urgent.
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The lure of Lexit must be resisted – socialism in one country is a fantasy
Much of the left still must learn that the existing British state is the prison of their hopes.
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On the eve of Magna Carta’s 800th birthday, the British legal system is being ripped apart
A protest march against the Global Law Summit reminds us that the charter is still relevant today.
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To save British democracy, Ed Miliband has to realise he must rebuild it from scratch
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The deep state: data surveillance is about power, not safety
All three of Britain’s main parties insist that data surveillance is for our protection – but this “emergency” is…
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