Where next for the democracy movement?
by Emma Burnell The question of electoral reform is now closed for a generation. Anyone who disagrees with this statement is part of the much wider problem that the democracy movement has. The movement...
View ArticleAV may be dead, but our obsession with marginals needs to go too
by Ben Cobley So the AV referendum is come and gone. Life has quickly gone back to normal without many of us giving the whole blasted charade much more thought. That is in many ways a blessing, for...
View ArticleWhy I spoiled my Labour Euro-selections ballot paper
by Ben Cobley Electoral Reform Services will have received my ballot paper by now. I had thought of writing rude messages on it, or tearing it into small pieces and dropping them into the envelope as a...
View ArticleGive PCCs a chance
by Kevin Meagher Okay, it’s not been a good week for police and crime commissioners. The derisory 10.4 per cent turnout in the by-election to elect a new commissioner for the West Midlands was bad...
View ArticleOi journalists! Stop complaining about MPs tweeting campaign pics. It’s...
by Ian McKenzie There is currently a deep and widening fracture between the British people and their political parties, apparently. The chasm is so big that the political party as a concept is in...
View ArticleI don’t like the European Parliament or the In campaign. The EU is flawed....
by Robin Thorpe The EU referendum is not really a Left-Right issue; it instead seems to separate groups of people on their age and level of education. But membership of the EU does accord with one of...
View ArticleThe Corbynite take on Venezuela tells you all you need to know about the...
by Rob Marchant A country with a population half that of Britain is currently collapsing. Its president was defeated in the country’s parliamentary elections last December and, in the true style of...
View ArticleLabour’s leadership plotting is going to end in tears
by Trevor Fisher Last autumn the Labour leadership issues seemed possible to discuss objectively, with a possible clean up of a deeply confused rule book. Perhaps even a sensible mid-term election...
View ArticleStringer faces deselection battle over Brexit vote
Over at the New Statesman, Stephen Bush has a story that Manchester MP and former minister, Graham Stringer, faces a deselection battle, following his decision to vote with the Government last month in...
View ArticlePeople have the power on Trump and Brexit. But will we use it?
by Jonathan Todd “Ultimately,” as Edward Luce wrote in the Financial Times recently, “the American people will decide Mr Trump’s fate.” Impeachment depends upon majorities in both houses of Congress....
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