Faced with the persistence of the pro-democracy mass movement within Hong Kong’s “special administrative region”, the all-powerful Chinese president is not sure what to do….
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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This article first appeared in CityAM By Joe Zammit-Lucia The Liberal Democrats have a new, young, energetic, female leader and are riding high in the…
This article was first published in CityAM When my colleague and I published a book entitled “The Death of Liberal Democracy?” in August 2016, many…
As I watch the woeful spectacle of the appointment of the UK’s next prime minister by an un-representative electoral college that is at the top…
The political world has changed and it is hard – not just practically, but emotionally – to keep up. Last week, I pulled off my…
Cameron predicts World War Three, screamed the tabloid headlines, when the former Prime Minister attempted to make the peace case for Britain’s EU membership during…
Years, no decades, ago a boss of mine gave me some advice. “Never put anything in writing that you’re not happy to see on the…
The polls in recent weeks have been a little nerve-wracking, at least for anyone who believes that democratic politics has the potential to make a…
Immediately following the Euro elections I wrote: “Given the success of the Brexit Party, the likelihood is that the Tories might feel compelled to move to…
This year, we mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That moment was so much bigger than what it meant for the…
Created by Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin in 1999 to bring together finance ministers from the world’s top 20 economies, expanded by President Sarkozy in…
“In many countries, new insurgent political movements have upended the status quo that sustained the mainstream political parties, showing them up as out of date…