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  • 18 Jul 2011
    Call for UAE to drop gagging charges against reform activists

    UAE authorities should drop charges against five activists arrested for calling for democratic reforms, four global human rights bodies say.

  • 16 Feb 2011
    Patriarch speaks of Egypt's 'historic opportunity'

    The leader of Egypt's Coptic Catholics has spoken of an “historic opportunity” for his country achieve the “dream” of a democratic system.

  • 30 Jul 2010
    What I told David: Democracy and the crisis of representation

    These days people in or near power can't wait to get our opinions so that they can take them seriously, says Graeme Smith. Or so it seems. But underneath the new cyber-Athenian democracy is a deeper crisis of representation with political and theological roots.

  • 11 Jul 2010
    A field day for the right-wing press

    As the old joke goes, the way to confuse Daily Mail readers is to tell them that asylum-seekers are the natural enemies of homosexuals. This wouldn't have worked last week, when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of two gay asylum-seekers, giving the right-wing media the opportunity to go into full scaremongering mode, firing off prejudiced comments about two groups handily combined into one.

  • 21 Apr 2010
    Involve young people in democracy, says Lucas

    The Leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, has insisted that young people should be allowed a greater role in the democratic process. She pitched for the youth vote on BBC Radio 1.