Alongside the coming referendum on AV Britain has been promised an elected second chamber, reformers are warned to keep their eye on both.
Continuing the OK Referendum Plus debate, the case for the AV referendum as a step towards replacing the 'sovereignty of parliament'
The rise of multi-party politics in the UK has meant that very few MPs can now claim majority support in their constituency, adding to the public's sense of alienation from Parliament. Professor Patrick Dunleavy, of the LSE, argues that there is now an overwhelming case for adopting the Alternativ
The Green Party won its first Westminster MP this year, could it now gain control of its first city? A Green candidate is excited by the prospect of sending a wake up call across England.
The Adam Smith Institute and the wider right could never palate the success of any publicly funded institution, so their latest reports' prescriptions for the BBC come as no surprise, argues Steven Barnett.
OK's reviews editor sets out the nature of of our Referendum Plus debate
The three main front of the UK's new Coalition are the economy, liberty and trying to 'carry on as before'. The Jury is still out on the first, the second is welcome, and the third is hopeless, but then so too is the main opposition.
New Voting system linked to rise in hair cancer researchers claim
The Evening Standard ran an extraordinary piece on the Alternative Vote by Bernard Jenkin MP, one of the leading figures in the "No" Campaign. Since the Standard refused electoral reformers the right to reply to Jenkin's highly misleading piece, we are publishing a full rebuttal here by Peter Face
How can we move forward from the crash of neoliberalism given the exhaustion of socialism?
The outrage at David Cameron's criticism of Pakistan's role in combating terrorism hides the truth: Pakistan is a fractured society in need of rediscovering a sense of unity with which it can defeat the Taliban, argues Zainab Mahmood.
The prospect for peace in Kashmir lies, according to Naveed Qazi, in an adaptation of an arrangement similar to the one that brought peace to North Ireland.
