Brexit – driven by unenlightened, defiantly anti-modern nationalism – could be the most serious constitutional crisis since Great Britain’s inception in 1707.
They want Macron to know that they are the people and they will be ignored no longer. So perhaps there is democracy in the streets after all.
"MPs from France, we inform you of the People's Directives for you to transpose them into LAW. "
The movement today is national, and in part nationalistic, very difficult to talk to about the reform of Europe. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to a pan-European movement like DiEM25.
Commercy's Yellow Vests offer a political solution to the movement: autonomous local committees, direct democracy, sovereign general assembly, delegates with a precise mandate revocable at any time, rotating responsibilities.
Northern Irish confidence is in short supply as political deadlock continues and the DUP flirt with No Deal and non-existent alternatives.
A TV debate would solve nothing, and claims about “the will of the people” are vapid. We need to find a way to hold a meaningful debate. (The rest and the West Part 2. - Part One is here.)
Women have played an active part in the war in Ukraine’s Donbas. But their role is yet to be recognised on its own terms.
The political right is not only cracking down on academic freedoms, but has started simultaneously to become a fierce advocate of an aggressively anti-intellectual freedom of speech.
What can the UK learn from those fighting the far right across Europe? Take history seriously
There is an alternative way of "letting the people decide" on an issue where MPs seem incapable of agreeing a coherent policy. The Greeks had a word for it: democracy.
