Stuart Weir - openDemocracy (Page 17)

The arrest of Omar Ahmet

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Just imagine being ready to drive off to work when an unmarked white van pulls up, armed police pour out and while one policeman smashes

By Stuart Weir

/ 21 Jul 2008

Identifying the problem

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): There is a surreal ironist in the Home Office. BBC News is trumpeting an investigation into rogue illegal immigrants who are apparently able to re-produce

By Stuart Weir

/ 17 Jul 2008

Public opinion not behind 42 days - ICM poll

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Gordon Brown is on shakier ground than he thinks on 42 days pre-charge detention for people suspected of terrorist offences. On the eve of the

By Stuart Weir

/ 8 Jul 2008

Muslims under siege

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): There is no such thing as the single monolithic “British Muslim community” that our politicians and media discuss. Britain’s one and a half million

By Stuart Weir

/ 4 Jul 2008

The NHS Consititution

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Seven years ago I sat on a radical commission into the future of the NHS with Will Hutton in the chair and alongside Allyson Pollock,

By Stuart Weir

/ 1 Jul 2008

Rotten Parliament frustrates real electoral reform

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): James Graham and I are in the same boat so far as electoral reform is concerned. The boat unfortunately is crewed by MPs and members

By Stuart Weir

/ 25 Jun 2008

AV and the politics of electoral reform

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): If we are realistic, the chances of electoral reform for elections to Westminster are now at least a generation away – unless first-past-the-post (FPTP) elections topple

By Stuart Weir

/ 20 Jun 2008

The politics of Heathrow expansion shows where real power lies

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Just how old fashioned the principles of representative democracy have become for government ministers is beautifully encapsulated in a brief report on the politics of

By Stuart Weir

/ 18 Jun 2008

Irish No vote exposes the failings of our democracy

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit):The Irish "no" vote has not only exposed the degree to which the leaders of the European Union are prepared to consider going

By Stuart Weir

/ 16 Jun 2008

Davis has exposed the political class

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): I don't know what impact David Davis will have on the erosion of civil liberties after the pusillanimous performance of Labour MPs (many

By Stuart Weir

/ 13 Jun 2008

War plans

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): All right, Gordon Brown and his government are weak and dishonest in their protestations over rebalancing power between the executive and Parliamemt. Their whole agenda

By Stuart Weir

/ 12 Jun 2008

UK children's rights systematically violated says new report

Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): You can hardly have failed to notice that the children’s commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have combined forces in a joint

By Stuart Weir

/ 9 Jun 2008