The battle of Auchterarder has been fought and lost. More than 5,000 protesters achieved on 6 July 2005 what snow over Prestwick airport could have accomplished the G8 dignitaries
At the G8 summit in Gleneagles on 6-8 July, several of the worlds most powerful leaders will meet to strum guitars, crack jokes and shake their fabulous bodies. The
A rainy Santiago protest
A campaign that began with endangered swans and grew into an indictment of Chilean democracy was stonewalled on 10 June when police rounded up demonstrators in
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article for openDemocracy about the surge in independent candidacies at the British general election. With 48 hours to go until polling stations open on
Independent, non-party members of parliament embody a contradiction. In Edmund Burkes terms, are they to be representatives who owe responsibility to their own judgment rather than electors opinion, or
