Anthony Barnett (writer)
Anthony Barnett (born November 1942) is the Founder of openDemocracy. He is a British writer and a campaigner for democracy. He was the first Director of Charter 88 from 1988 to 1995 and Co-Director of the Convention on Modern Liberty (2008–2009) with Henry Porter.[1]
He was a student at Cambridge University, where he was active in the Labour Club, and lodged with Nicholas Kaldor. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University in September 2013.
A former member of the editorial committee of New Left Review, Barnett writes for the New Statesman and The Guardian.[2][3] He has also written for Prospect.[4] He conceived the television film England's Henry Moore (1988), which concerned the sculptor's co-option by the British establishment.
In 2001 he founded openDemocracy with Paul Hilder, Susie Richards and David Hayes and was its Editor and then its Editor-in-Chief until 2007.
He lives with Judith Herrin; the couple have two daughters, the singer Tamara Barnett Herrin and Portia Barnett-Herrin.
Barnett is a writer of articles, blog posts and long essays on a regular basis for openDemocracy.[5] In 2016 he serialised Blimey it could be Brexit! publishing a chapter a week in the run up to Britain’s EU referendum about the forces behind the vote. His in-depth evaluation What Next: Britain after Brexit will be published by Unbound in 2017.
Bibliography
A writer and organiser he is the author of:
- Aftermath, Vietnam and Cambodia (1982) with John Pilger ISBN 978-0-900962-11-0
- Iron Britannia, Why Parliament Waged its Falklands War (1982) ISBN 978-0-85031-493-9
- Soviet Freedom (1988) ISBN 978-0-09-175871-4
- Debating the Constitution (1992) with Caroline Ellis and Paul Hirst ISBN 978-0-7456-1199-0
- Power and the Throne (1994), drawn from the Charter 88 monarchy debate ISBN 978-0-09-939311-5
- This Time - Our Constitutional Revolution (1997) ISBN 978-0-09-926858-1
- Town and Country (1999) edited with Roger Scruton ISBN 978-0-224-05254-2
- The Athenian Option, Radical reform of the House of Lords with Peter Cary (2008) ISBN 978-1-84540-139-9
References
- ↑ "Anthony Barnett: a radical’s fanfare". opendemocracy.net. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ↑ "Writers – Anthony Barnett". New Statesman. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ↑ "Anthony Barnett". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ↑ "Articles by Anthony Barnett". Prospect. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ↑ "Anthony Barnett". openDemocracy. Retrieved 5 August 2017.