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    2019 ushers in era of state control

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 07/01/2019

    » A signature theme of the new year is the possibility of a malign confrontation between the world's greatly enhanced capacity for electronic surveillance and the weakening of democratic control. The antidote to that risk is the democratic spirit and civil freedoms -- both of which are suffering worldwide. These are not dead, but they are unwell, at times untended.

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    Democracy is key for uniting disparate Europe

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 08/01/2018

    » The European political year, grinding back into gear for 2018, is full of doubt, even woe. In the continent's major countries politics are stuck, or likely to stick, in cul-de-sacs from which exit is difficult. Only in France, under the banner not so much of the tricolour as the injunction En Marche! (Let's Go!), is there official optimism and vigour.

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    Why social democrats have become irrelevant

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 20/11/2017

    » In almost every country in Europe, parties of the centre-left struggle to remain competitive in the political arena. Yet social democracy -- though it can claim success in creating and developing public services which have improved the lives and health of citizens -- can now rarely convince its former supporters that it's still worth their votes.

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