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Theme : democracy
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Democracy and Development speech by Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Demos democracy and development speech by Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International Development.
from : mollywebb
9th October 2006
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Beyond the veil
By choosing to comment on Muslim women's dress last week, Jack Straw plunged himself into the heart of a debate that is seen as symbolic of the pitfalls that lie ahead for our increasingly multicultural society. His argument was that the niqab - the style of dress that calls for women's faces to be veiled below eye-level - creates a physical barrier that is problematic because it reflects the social and cultural barriers that already stand between Muslim communities and their...
from : hannahlownsbrough
9th October 2006
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The Medium is the Message?
What better way to dispel the accusations that you're vacuous and policy-lite than to air your very own video podcast, or vodcast or...webcameron - noting your whimsical and more sincere policy insights and firing them into the open-access heaven of the internet? Talking straight to the people, wired straight into the public consciousness - no middlemen, no journo agendas, no spin; just your ideas with the ecover, some washing up, drying underpants and breakfast with the wife and kids.Are the...
from : petebradwell
2nd October 2006
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Friday rant: democracy on the cheap
If there’s one thing that annoys me, it is when the same people who defend the first past the post system then go on to argue that we need less MPs.
I’ve ranted on the blog before about this, and i’m afrad i’m going to have to do it again.
from : duncanoleary
29th September 2006
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Positioning the Arts at the Heart of Society
Following on from Charlie's comment below, I think that connects pretty strongly with a more general awareness amongst public, politicianas and companies that the arts and culture are more than just add ons and things that make life generally pretty.
from : samjones
27th September 2006
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City of strategy, cities of tactics
This year’s Architecture Biennale is an interesting one. Go to the main exhibition, and what you will see is not architecture. Instead of fetishizing architectural drawings and models, curator Ricky Burdett has decided that it is the city we need to be concerned with.
So, great - Yes, but.
from : joostbeunderman
12th September 2006
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Labour's young MPs want to do politics differently
Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley discusses the ideas for reforming political parties in the new Demos pamphlet 'Serving a cause, serving a community', by Douglas Alexander MP
from : markfuller
7th September 2006
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giddy for Giddy
"Britain is a sophisticated 21st-century society, but we still make do with a crude 19th-century system of limited and indirect democracy." This is Saira Khan. Apparently she was in a TV programme called The Apprentice. This was a sort of staged masochism where contestents tried to make money in "real life situations" before being ritually humiliated Alan Sugar. In anycase the experience doesn't seem to have broken Saira. She has an article in The Times today...
from : charlietims
4th September 2006
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An orthodoxy of ‘the local’...
A look at participation in the context of international development.
from : petebradwell
29th August 2006
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The Tryanny of Participation in Information Systems
A brief and accessible look at the problems associated with participation.
from : petebradwell
29th August 2006
