*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 21:23:04 +0100 From: Anthony Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: James Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: openDemocracy - Issue 1 Dear all, openDemocracy launches to the world today (http://www.opendemocracy.net). Here are the contents of the first issue. With your help, we hope it will become a truly global network. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you know - they can register for free to read, or join the network and participate. Hope that you enjoy it. best wishes, Anthony Barnett openDemocracy Issue 1 OPENINTERVIEW ============================ Pariah Kingdom by Tom Nairn This biting election polemic sees Thatcher and Blair as partners - in a non-stop non-revolution from above that has created a parody of Britain. Where is the energy to break open the régime? http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=12&DocID=425&D ebateID=107 High Noon for the centre left Fearless columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, star of British right-wing journalism Matt D'Ancona, and Matthew Taylor, director of influential New Labour think-tank IPPR, debate Britain after the election with Tom Nairn and Anthony Barnett. Ask your questions - they'll respond! http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=12&DocID=428&D ebateID=107 OPENQUESTION ============================ Are elections any way to run a democracy? The openQuestion has already drawn responses from India, the Czech Republic, North Cyprus, a former US senator, the director of think-tank Demos, the president of Magdalen, Oxford, and many more... over to you. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/debate_home.asp?CatID=86 PIXELS ============================ Election 2001 by Steve Bell One of today's great cartoonists gives us a savage anatomy of the ravaged landscape of election Britain. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=88&DocID=377&D ebateID= EUROPA ============================ A letter for Europe by Reinhard Hesse A speechwriter to German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder writes a sardonic, challenging letter to ask: where is Europe? http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=6&DocID=415&De bateID=99 A stork's eye view from Poland by Krzysztof Bobinski The EU can’t be a true home for Poland if there is no room for storks and loose ends. The Poles feel pulled in two directions. Europe, yes, but which Europe? http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=6&DocID=421&De bateID=99 WORCESTER WOMEN ============================ Something in the water: the women of Waverley Street In the latest episode of Worcester Women... three neighbours meet when the shit backs up into their kitchens. They play the "game", beat the system, and meet the queen. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=21&DocID=435&D ebateID= New Labour, new cliché by Dominic Hilton Worcester Woman is the creation of Britain’s spin doctors. Every concept has a history. This one reveals the cynicism of the party machines. Can real women in Worcester bite the hand that spun them? http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=21&DocID=396&D ebateID= CITY AND COUNTRY ============================ Green dreams, brown sites, blue sky City & Country’s two editors, Roger Scruton from the Wiltshire countryside and Ken Worpole from Hackney in London, join forces in search of a new urban-rural relationship. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=4&DocID=423&De bateID=108 Town mouse, country mouse by Ann Pettitt A Welsh smallholder challenges walkers, townies and consumers, as well as farmers, to wake up to the foot & mouth alarm call. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=4&DocID=424&De bateID=108 WORLD MEDIA ============================ Quality, not profit by Andrew Graham A leading economist insists public service broadcasters are as necessary for a healthy society as fresh air. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=5&DocID=388&De bateID=101 The BBC no longer washes whiter by David Elstein In this response to Andrew Graham, David Elstein argues the British experience shows public service broadcasting is wasteful, patronising and too close to power. The market is the future. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=5&DocID=387&De bateID=101 Coming soon - broadcasting in India... OPENEYE ============================ Hollywood cheers and China shrugs by Isaac Leung Why did the continent-crossing ambitions of Ang Lee’s Oscar winner seem irrelevant to eastern audiences? http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=44&DocID=398&D ebateID=100 REFLECTIONS ============================ Privatising our genes? by Michael Ashburner One of the world’s leading geneticists tells the story of the race for the genome, and the stand he took against commercialisation. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=18&DocID=399&D ebateID=98 A lobbyist goes to Washington by Laura Sandys "Circling the wagons around the constitution" - a European view of American certitudes. http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=18&DocID=422&D ebateID=98 Whatever happened to England's north east? by David Hayes Sunderland is known for its football, its car factories, and now its "metric martyr". 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