Guy Aitchison

Guy Aitchison is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University. He is a political theorist with interests in human rights, political resistance and migration. You can follow him @GuyAitchison.

Brown must go, says Guardian

On the eve of the European and local elections, the Guardian is calling for Labour to remove Gordon Brown and replace him with a leader capable of reforming a political

By Guy Aitchison

/ 2 Jun 2009

Vote for a Change

The Electoral Reform Society launches a major new campaign today for a referendum on the voting system. Vote for a Change has an ad in the Observer and the backing

By Guy Aitchison

/ 31 May 2009

Fiddling your expenses 101 - a lesson from the Whips

This just gets more and more outrageous, doesn't it? Via the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh comes this transcript of Labour MP Jane Griffths describing to Radio

By Guy Aitchison

/ 29 May 2009

Sunny on the threat and promise of new technology

Sunny Hundal has an article in this week's New Statesman on the double-edged nature of modern technology, which simultaneously allows governments and corporations to track us and collect

By Guy Aitchison

/ 29 May 2009

BBC's useless response to our letter on G20 policing - and our reply

On May 21st Stuart White and I wrote an open letter to the BBC outlining serious concerns we have with their coverage of the policing of the G20 protests. The

By Guy Aitchison

/ 27 May 2009

A surer grasp of what is right and what is wrong

Quick observation on Moatgate and the Meltdown as we enter "day 20". Last week I noted how the Guardian was beginning to set the agenda with its New

By Guy Aitchison

/ 27 May 2009

An open letter to the BBC

With a few honorable exceptions, the media's coverage of the policing of the G20 protests has been pretty shoddy. As a public service broadcaster the BBC is rightly

By Guy Aitchison

/ 21 May 2009

Guardian overtakes Telegraph on MPs expenses

Congratulations to the Guardian for launching an urgent debate on a New Politics over at Comment is Free. The Telegraph did all the initial running on MPs expenses but the

By Guy Aitchison

/ 21 May 2009

Time for a citizens' convention?

There's lots of talk about how moatgate (I'm calling it that until a name gets settled) can be the catalyst which leads to the clean up

By Guy Aitchison

/ 20 May 2009

Campaign to clean up Westminster

Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy is launching a campaign to demand cleaner and more transparent politics for Britain. He has just set up the Facebook group. Excellent. As the group

By Guy Aitchison

/ 15 May 2009

Sir Stuart Bell: wrong again on expenses

Faced with public disgust at the shamless rapacity of MPs Sir Stuart Bell, the Labour member of the House of Commons Commission, came up with swift proposals to prevent another

By Guy Aitchison

/ 12 May 2009

Mordor versus the Met

It was a tense and uncomfortable atmosphere at times during yesterday's Metropolitan Police Authority meeting at City Hall. Tim Godwin and Chris Allison speaking for the Met were

By Guy Aitchison

/ 1 May 2009