Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an
entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime
minister, even if briefly. Th...
Social media are blamed for almost everything
that is wrong with democracy.
Facebook, twitter and other platforms are held
responsible for pollution of the...
Democracy is
a system of majority rule, but that raises the question of what majority rule
actually means.
In the last
decade, we have had three elections ...
Last month the US Department
of Justice published Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s report on his
investigation into Russian interference in the country’s 20...
The Brexit vote told us that a majority of voters wanted to leave the EU, but it said little about their preferences for the form that Brexit should take. Pub...
In this year’s local elections, voters in five English council areas were asked to do something unfamiliar to voters in Britain. Something that appears fairly u...
The summer of 2018 has seen Welsh politics undergo multiple leadership elections at the same time. Four of the five parties represented in the National Assembly...
Who represents us, how they got there, and their attitudes and beliefs are the underpinnings of our political system. In our surveys of all parliamentary c...
Andrew Hindmoor's monograph on the future prospects for British social democracy is one of the most important to have been written on the left for some years.
...
Last week the much anticipated Unite vote on Brexit was revealed. The fairly weak statement by the conference delegates does not endorse a second refe...
With parliament, the Conservative Party and even the Cabinet deeply divided over what Brexit should involve, some backbench MPs have reportedly begun ...
