The past few years in Westminster have largely been nightmarish, but there has been some silver linings. As everything around us falls apart, some underrated…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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Anyone who has been involved in any kind of negotiation knows that there comes a time when reason, logic, goodwill and self-interest all fly out…
When I was a teenager first interested in politics and determined to choose the odd party out, I put aside my childish idea that the…
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…
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…
This article was first published in the Times of Malta It’s the same old story. If you drop a frog in hot water, it immediately…
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,…