Andy Mycock on ideas for a British civic service programme
Vincent Cable's forgotten support for Scottish independence, and Gordon Brown's forgotten consideration of 'English Votes for English Laws'
The city forms a unique security environment and should be recognised as such
An obituary of the Labour figure
Details of an event at Truro College on Saturday 23 January
The mainstream media coverage of the future of public spending has become entirely focused on the need for future spending cuts. The only issue left in doubt that of timing,
What Parliament isn’t being told about children’s lives inside a UK detention centre.
It can hardly be a coincidence: a key government adviser proposing a massive rise in university fees just as the sector is reeling from the news of enormous imminent cuts.
A Dutch inquiry concludes the Iraq war ‘was illegal’ as Alastair Campbell presents his evidence before the Chilcot inquiry. Afghans express anger over alleged desecration of Quran. Yemen kills ‘al-Qaeda cell leader.’ Obama expected to ask $33billion more for wars in February. Israel apologises to
When we shop are we exercising our freedom? Or are we more like prisoners exercising in the yard under supervision? Is the consumer market a realm of democracy, or of
Fishkin, James, When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation, Oxford University Press, 2009.
James Fishkin, who is masterminding POWER 2010’s deliberative assembly in London this weekend (see
On the day after the Conservatives published a draft manifesto for the English NHS that failed to mention ‘England’ a single time, I thought it would be fitting to publish
