Democracy

Why Yes Minister is as true as ever

Yes, Minister, the classic BBC comedy series, has just been sold to the Ukraine. Yes Minister, starring (from left) Derek Fowlds as Bernard Woolley , Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby and Paul Eddington as minister Jim...

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A great EU stitch-up that demeans democracy

The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon project It's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers...

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Pakistan's youth abandon democracy

• Swelling population 'risks demographic disaster' • Cynicism and disaffection among disturbing findings Pakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical...

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Auditing the central bank: a jolly good thing!

What is so important about H.R. 1207: the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 aka the ‘Audit the Fed’ bill? This bill “To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the...

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Voting for failure in Afghanistan | Stephen Kinzer

By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democratic The fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented . Most laments focus on a single obvious fact:...

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Oxford University nude calendar censored for being 'too erotic'

Never keen to be outshone by Cambridge University which was involved in a row last month over its first tabloid newspaper complete with students posing as "Page 3" girls under the banner "Totty" Oxford now has its own nude...

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John Roughan: Decisions better from elected heads

Smackers, whackers, violence victims, life-means-lifers - just about everybody who has initiated a referendum in this country may be in Queen St today to march behind a banner called "democracy".It belongs to an Auckland...

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Democracy march expected to draw thousands (Newstalk ZB)

Newstalk ZB November 21, 2009, 3:17 am Thousands of people are expected to take part in a march in Auckland today, calling on politicians to be more responsive to public opinion. March for Democracy organiser Colin Craig has...

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Google, Yahoo zero in on Internet 'freedom' bill

By John Letzing / MarketWatch Friday, November 20, 2009 - Added 4m ago SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could...

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Shun censorship, distorted propaganda: Dalai Lama tells China

Observing that the 1.3 billion people of China have the 'right to know the reality', Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday advised the Communist regime there to shun 'censorship and distorted propaganda'.He also...

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