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WE were gathered. Some intellectuals, social activists, journalists, serving and retired diplomats. The primary issue was democracy. Is it universal and is there just a single, or multiple roads to democracy? Is the British democracy which calls itself the Mother of Parliaments, superior to the American version; is the latter better than the Australian or the Chinese? Is Russian democracy superior to Ukrainian?  

I see democracy as a system of government by popular representation based on the vote of the electorate, in which the people's will prevails.

Television director who made award-winning arts films for the BBC and ITV

One hundred and four men died following an explosion at William Pit in August 1947.

Relatives of the people who died in the William Pit disaster have been left “sickened” by vandals who scrawled obscenities on a memorial site…

My argument is that democracy is a system of government by popular representation based on the vote of the electorate in which the will of the people prevails.

My argument is that democracy is a system of government by popular representation based on the vote of the electorate in which the will of the people prevails.

A mining company’s proposal has largely been embraced locally as an economic stimulus, but climate concerns may shelve the idea.

BBC News By Chris Mason Published There is a padlock on the door. A bill on the doormat. On the corner of King Street and Lowther Street, in the west Cumbrian town of Whitehaven, is the carcass of a High Street giant. Etched into the cream coloured stone work above the first floor windows are the words: Montague Burton, the Tailor of Taste. At knee height, at street level, a gold coloured inscription: "This stone laid by Arnold James Burton, 1938." Stitched into the corporate history of Burtons...