The cost of the monarchy to the taxpayer last year was £41m and Palace accounts also showed that the Queen dipped into a reserve fund to boost her civil list income by £6m. Professor of Politics John Keane considers...
Read MoreJohn Keane discusses why he wrote THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY. ...
Read MoreBBC RADIO 3, 21:15, 11 June 2009, Rana Mitter talked with John Keane on democracy's future. Susannah Clapp has the first review of The National Theatre's production of Phedre, in which Helen Mirren stars as the eponymous tragic Greek heroine destroyed...
Read More8 June 2009, John Keane was guest of Andrew Marr's Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to John Keane about democracy, Katie Mitchell about virgin births and opera, Peter Hall about the vitality of regional theatre and Matthew Gale about Futurism. Originally...
Read More28 March 2009 14:00 - 16:00 BST John Keane speaks of Paine’s legacy 200 years after his death A special meeting to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine, revolutionary democrat and author of The Rights of Man, The Age of Reasonand Common...
Read MoreA talk delivered by John Keane in Universitat Jaume I Castellon (Spain) on February 5, 2009 Synopsis in Spanish El professor de Política de la Universitat de Westminster i del Wissenschaftszentrum Berlín, John Keane, va impartir el dijous 5 de febrer de...
Read MoreTalk delivered at the the Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain, 5 February 2009. Necesita tener el Flash Player // -> Read the Spanish translation of the presentation here -> Read a 'review' of this lecture as appeared in El Mercantil...
Read MoreSenate Occasional Lecture, Parliament House, Canberra, Friday August 28th 2009 We live in an age of communicative abundance. As in every previous communication revolution, new products and processes—satellite broadcasting, iPhones, electronic books, tweets, cloud computing—have spawned fascination, fear and trembling, excitement,...
Read MoreGriffith Review: Edition 24 Participation Society(Review's website here) There is a need for a fundamental revision of the way we think about democracy in our times. An epochal transformation has been taking place in the contours and dynamics of representative democracy. From roughly...
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