Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): With an electoral system that diminishes, inhibits and fractures their election results and the traditional two-party mindset of the political class (politicians and journalists alike)
Rupert Read (Norwich, The Green Party): A crisis can provoke the best in political leadership. Immediacy and clarity, brought on by the realisation of danger, can make middle-of-the-road administrators step
Gavin Yates (Edinburgh, GYMedia): The Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has taken the unprecedented step of writing to all 189 signatories of the International Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in an attempt
David Hayes (London, openDemocracy): No one ever went bankrupt making a bet on the likelihood of finding obvious errors every day in the British print media. By the same token,
Jon Bright (London, OK): Writing in the Telegraph today, Philip Johnston is right to point out that all the noise made over the EU treaty is as much about our
Andrew Blick (London, Houses of Parliament): Since Public Service Agreements (PSAs) are so vital to the way in which governance functions in the UK and since they receive so little
Jon Bright (London, OK): With all the debate over who the next leader of the lib dems will be, is the party missing a more fundamental opportunity to have a
Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): "LSD article plays tricks on Huhne's mind" ran the top-page article in yesterday's Sunday Times, drawing attention to an
Direct Democracy: Gordon Brown's former special advisor, Chris Wales, made an unexpectedly radical foray into the jungle of local government reform this week in an article for the
Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Amidst all the sound and fury signifying nothing more than Punch and Judy politics over the Lisbon treaty one common feature of both the government&
Jonathan Church (London, The Federal Trust): On Friday EU leaders agreed the text for a Reform Treaty, the successor to the rejected Constitutional Treaty. Yet for Mr Brown, there is
Moderator: This is a response to a speech made by Meg Russell at an ippr fringe meeting in September. The speech itself is reproduced here.
Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit)
