Category: Revitalising Liberal Democracy

A political collapse along the lines of that suffered by the Canadian Conservatives in 1993 – when they fell from a Parliamentary majority to just…

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Margaret Thatcher said there was no such thing as society. Or, rather, that is the decontextualised quote which survives her. Shorn of the explanatory following…

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The Conservatives seek to frame pretty much every general election (with the exception of “Get Brexit Done”) as Tory tax cuts versus Labour spend.  …

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Oppenheimer, the film by Christopher Nolan, has now cleaned up at the Bafta awards last month, and it is on track to do the same…

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Last year, Australia held a referendum called ‘The Voice’ on a constitutional amendment to create a separate political body representing indigenous views. A number of…

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The sumptuous welcome given to Vladimir Putin on December 6, by the two most powerful petromonarchies in the Persian Gulf stunned Westerners. For his “working…

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The US political system has been transfixed over the past week by the House of Representatives Judicial Committee and its subcommittee – and the chair of…

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“It’s the economy, stupid”.  There is now an almost unanimous consensus that the next government, in less than 12 months from now, will inherit a daunting…

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Did you see it? The cheering crowds, the children with their little flags, the tear and the kiss? Maybe you didn’t, because you have an…

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Living abroad, I am bombarded with news about how badly Britain is faring (the latest being the post office scandal and the continuing tortuous debates…

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Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, seems to be being set up to take the rap for the Post Office scandal, following the television drama…

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Over the last few weeks, I have been told with increasing certainty that the government is now working towards a general election in late Spring/early…

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