“To go to a referendum was curious… the UK has a regime of representative government that works to ensure that popular concerns have only limited impact on the conduct of government.”
Increasing awareness of the shady dealings of the monarchy - and the institutions that protect it - are leading to a growing republican movement in the UK.
A new British nuclear arsenal will face great obstacles. Not least: is it legal?
A few unpleasant incidents are being highlighted to undermine a huge, peaceful, democratic movement.
We could yet be thanking the UK for saving us by the alarm bell.
We are no longer an empire and yet the legacies of imperialism are present every-day.
As debate in the UK is pre-occupied with renewal of Trident there is an apparent lack of awareness that the world of non-proliferation and disarmament is changing around us.
The British public are tired of simplified, polarising campaign messages, and are fast losing faith in their elected representatives, setting the stage for a renewal of Trident by default.
Brexit has revealed a culture war, which the left has been quietly losing.
The ‘new politics’ Jeremy Corbyn proclaims must be an explicit agenda of institutional change, not simply a change of style at the dispatch box.
We need, like my daughter, to start rebelling against the monodimensional models of identity we are asked to conform to.
