The First-Past-The-Post system makes the House of Commons outrageously unrepresentative. Most votes are wasted since they are not reflected in the outcome. The Commons is…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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The Statue of Liberty. Ellis Island. US history. The diversity most of us see every day. All serve to remind us we are a country…
In Aix-la-Chapelle, the capital of the Western Empire of Charlemagne – precursor, twelve centuries ago, of the European Union – the leaders of France and…
The Brexit shenanigans and the turbulent politics in many other countries is almost enough to make one lose faith in democracy. Meantime, the apparent success…
I have been beginning a debate with my friend and Radix colleague Joe Zammit-Lucia about whether or not a general election is the only way…
“I will assert the privilege of yielding to the force of argument and conviction, and acting upon the result of enlarged experience. It may be supposed…
Who should we blame for the bizarre and humiliating indecision in which the Mother of Parliaments finds itself, having kept the government in power when…
By Renaud Girard in Beirut Since the start of the decade, the movement known as the ‘Arab Spring’ has represented a clash between two ideologies,…
In England, we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years between the perception that something ought to be done and a…
Have we ever had such an incompetent government? Isn’t it so embarrassing? That is how the chattering classes seem to be reacting to the admittedly…
The US Federal Reserve seems to be doing a slow U-turn on its previously hawkish monetary policy stance. Jerome Powell’s latest calming words have reassured…
At one of my family gatherings over Christmas, I found myself arguing a somewhat radical position about what is likely to happen to the shape…