Representative democracy, Part Two: Can it work?
In the second of 2 parts, Bob Bater discusses how voting could be made fairer. Could...
Read moreIn the second of 2 parts, Bob Bater discusses how voting could be made fairer. Could...
Read moreDr Helmut Hubel is inspired by Shostakovich’s ‘Requiem’ to give a requiem to some individual victims...
Read moreWith public disaffection with politics at its highest level ever, an overhaul of our voting system...
Read moreClaire Jones shows how Rishi Sunak’s disastrous Covid strategies have destroyed his future prospects as a...
Read moreMichelle Cook looks at the argument for Universal Basic Income and concludes it will give the...
Read moreJulian Greenbank looks at how the redrawing of constituencies will affect our area
Read moreAnn Black calls on her party to wake up to the risks of not backing PR,...
Read moreMartin Griffiths was on the Rejoin March and came back more convinced than ever that the...
Read moreChallenging the worldview reflected in government orthodoxy which inevitably favours exploiting the natural world and human...
Read moreBen Watters challenges Ofcom for allowing sitting MPs to parade as ‘newsreaders’ whilst offering their ‘opinion’.
Read moreBen Watters asks why Ofcom struggles to meaningfully penalise GB News after multiple investigations.
Read moreIs Ofcom still going strong and is it still relevant? Or are GB News and the...
Read moreBob Copeland feels that Labour is missing an opportunity to put forward policies that will make...
Read moreNew writer Flo Clucas regales us with her conversation with some elderly Bingo players. This showed...
Read moreJulian Greenbank looks at the implications of the recent by-elections on a future General Election in...
Read moreHadrian Cook attacks the indifference of the government to air pollution and its cynical attitude of...
Read moreWhere is the accountability and democratic representation of our contempt and entitlement-ridden government?
Read moreBob proposes ‘Democracy Vouchers’ as a radical way to put an end to the abuses inherent...
Read moreMichael asks when can we rid ourselves of the legacy of Johnson’s (and Thatcher’s) lying and...
Read moreClaire Jones explores Labour's misguided attack on pluralism through the surprising new case of Neal Lawson's...
Read moreBrexit was sold as a fake picture with such a high price that it had to...
Read moreClaire Jones deprecates the media's collusion with Johnson's Trump-like tantrums and denial of the painfully obvious...
Read moreThe compulsive liar can’t stop himself lying and yet some fools still believe him.
Read moreA constituent writes to his MP urging that Monday's vote should send a clear signal that...
Read moreIn Part Three of this interview, Borys agrees that he tolerated sleaze and corruption from his...
Read moreIn Part Two of this spoof interview, Borys admits to serial lying in the Referendum campaign,...
Read moreIn an open letter, Claire Jones warns Keir Starmer that, since his authoritarian approach and U-turns...
Read morePart One of another (spoof) interview, this time with former Prime Minister Borys Jvanovich. ‘Big Dog’...
Read moreHadrian wonders where reform of the EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill might be taking us?...
Read moreIn this final Part Three, our Prime Minister apologises for all his anti-democratic policies, which were...
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