The global financial crisis exposes anew the flaws of a British polity that resists democratic modernisation, illustrating that the United Kingdom remains 'unfit for purpose'. We now need a new approach to the state that ends the fusion between money and politics, say Anthony Barnett and Gerry Hassan.

The United States is preparing a war designed to unleash an unparalleled concentration of force to impose regime change on Iraq, writes Anthony Barnett in this formative article from 2003.