The excellent Avaaz are polling their members in Britain on whether they should run a positive campaign for democracy (read hung parliament and an alliance for reform) and defy the
The fightback by the UK two-party system has begun with the accusation that anything else is ‘anti-politics’. But it is democratic politics that has broken through the spin
There is a very interesting and I think important pledge from the Conservative candidate for Richmond Zac Goldsmith. I'm reproducing it in full below from his website. Leaving
Over on Liberal Conspiracy Sunny has a plug for Labour's re-elect Phil Woolas as the worst re-election website ever. But this must be the worst election vid. Let&
The first party leaders TV debate created a historic opening for the Liberal Democrats and maybe - just maybe - the beginning of the end of Britain's old regime
By focusing on pruning the BBC, the media commentariat are losing sight of a greater danger to broadcasting in the UK, Sky.
Demos' latest report, 'The edge of violence', sets out a new agenda for counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation strategies in Canada and Europe. While it breaks important ground, it leaves significant questions unanswered, argues Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal.
The Democratic Audit has just published a paper on what we are now learning to call 'A Balanced Parliament'.
The key points it makes are:
* Parliaments in which
Aside from the impact the leaders' debates may have upon the outcome of the General Election, some observers will take them as further evidence of a supposed newly-emerging tendency
Instead of a hung parliament being an unintended consequence of a close electoral race in next month's UK election, why not positively demand the frustration of the two main party leaderships and vote for democracy?
As the political parties decompose a forgotten nation haunts the British general election - and Brown's only chance of holding on to office is likely to be at its expense.
