Anthony Barnett is the founder of openDemocracy.net. A social entrepreneur of wide experience, Anthony helped launch Charter 88 in 1988 and was its first Director. Generating widespread support he turned it into a movement for the democratic reform of Britain (at the end of the 90s the Telegraph described it as the UK's "most influential pressure group of the decade"). Anthony is also a writer and journalist. He is the author of Iron Britannia; Soviet Freedom and This Time; and co-author and editor of among other books, Aftermath: the Struggle of Vietnam and Cambodia; Power and the Throne, Town and Country and a considerable range of articles and pamphlets covering politics and culture including the television film, England's Henry Moore. He writes regularly for openDemocracy and is currently editing its British blog OurKingdom and launched its dedicated coverage of democracy and terrorism after the Madrid bombings of 11 March 2004.