'Open’ government data has been captured by private interests. The only way to democratise the use of digital public assets is to ‘open up’ who decides how they are used.
UK lawmakers have been slow to act on Facebook’s influence on our democracy, though more outspoken when it comes to Facebook’s designs on international finance.
Surrounded by yes-men, cronies and dubious advisors, Johnson is trashing standards in public life and traditional statecraft – and Britain will be the worse for it.
Reformers need to start thinking differently about constitutional change if they want to build a meaningful democratic framework for the twenty-first century.
