Earlier this
year, I gave
evidence to the House of Commons Liaison Committee (alongside
Professor Meg Russell, director of the Constitution Unit) on the topic ...
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 year was the centenary of the 1918 Act which introduced universal suffrage for all male citizens over twenty‐one and all female citizens over thirty. Wome...
Forty years ago, those in the top one per cent took home
around three per cent of all income; today that share has more doubled
to around eight per cent. Aroun...
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...
What to make of
Extinction Rebellion (XR) after its spectacular week occupying four very
visible sites in central London? We were there on the first day of the...
The suburban areas that were initially stereotyped in the late
nineteenth century as ‘Villa Tory’ strongholds and exemplified by Hackney and
Islington were pla...
The 2017 snap general
election was, for many people, a remarkable result for Labour given the
pervading conventional wisdom that the Labour party could not do ...
With numerous
delays to the publication of the social care green paper, everyone in the
health and social care industry has had ample time to truly consider wh...
Mustn't grumble. Mustn't make a fuss.
England's suburbs are slowly dying, as years of austerity slowly changes the
landscape. Since 2014, life expectancy has b...
