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David Hayes

David Hayes, Inside Story’s UK correspondent, was a co-founder of openDemocracy. He has written textbooks on human rights and terrorism, and was a contributor to Town and Country (Jonathan Cape, 1998). His work has been published in PN Review, the Irish Times, El Pais, the Iran Times International, the Canberra Times, the Scotsman, the New Statesman and The Absolute Game. He has edited five print collections of material from the openDemocracy website, and edited Fred Halliday’s Political Journeys: The openDemocracy Essays (Saqi, 2011).

International David Hayes 25 November 2024 British Labour’s early missteps are sullying its promise of renewal. The prime minister, unmoved, is reaching for the stars
International David Hayes 5 July 2024 The result is clear, but all else about Britain’s change of government is cloudy Essays & reportage David Hayes 14 September 2021 A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituarists’ campaigning hero-journalist International David Hayes 2 October 2020 Britain’s man-gets-job frenzy was less about Tony Abbott than it seemed International David Hayes 26 May 2020 Britain’s book of government blunders has a new chapter
International David Hayes 25 March 2020 The virus looks like being the catalyst of yet another British revolution
International David Hayes 26 February 2020 Japan approaches its Olympics across a tightrope of risk International David Hayes 31 December 2019 A dizzying 2019 ends in a Conservative upheaval with distinct traces of Tony Blair’s New Labour International David Hayes 13 December 2019 Britain has voted for clarity, but the aftermath will be muddy International David Hayes 11 December 2019 A fragmented election campaign nears its big reveal
International David Hayes 20 November 2019 Boris Johnson’s election may yet restore the pith to Britain’s democracy
International David Hayes 25 September 2019 Britain’s Supreme Court overrules Queen, prime minister — and people International David Hayes 21 August 2019 Boris Johnson’s team, clutching European exit visa and election plan, flies towards the sun International David Hayes 24 July 2019 Boris Johnson the showman needs to become a statesman. Can he? International David Hayes 28 June 2019 One thing is needed before Brexit: a coherent government
International David Hayes 24 May 2019 A young prophet of apocalypse invigorates Europe’s climate debate
International David Hayes 2 April 2019 Suppose the Remainers had narrowly won the 2016 Brexit referendum. What happened next? International David Hayes 11 March 2019 The mutinies continue, but the endgame of Britain’s European drama could also be an opening International David Hayes 19 February 2019 A split from Labour is a shaft of light amid the Brexit gloom International David Hayes 29 January 2019 A Tokyo trip is another lesson in looking afresh
Essays & reportage David Hayes 20 January 2019 Thirty years on, the riveting story of consuming devotion — and its buried chronicle — still haunts this reader
International David Hayes 11 December 2018 Britain’s economic model has to change, and that may take another crisis International David Hayes 21 November 2018 Brexit’s failure of governance is sending democracy haywire International David Hayes 17 October 2018 The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift International David Hayes 8 October 2018 This party leader can’t own or disown his past, nor Labour’s
International David Hayes 27 August 2018 Letter from London | Australia’s political drama gives Britain respite from Brexit, along with a crash course in Canberrology
International David Hayes 27 July 2018 Britain’s exit from Europe is showing the flaws of both parties to the negotiations Essays & reportage David Hayes 14 July 2018 On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history International David Hayes 22 June 2018 Ireland’s vote to legalise abortion is having a percussive impact on its neighbours International David Hayes 29 May 2018 The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe