A myth about the Alternative Vote is that it eliminates the need for tactical voting. It doesn’t.
Helen Lambert, of PoliceStateUK, gives her account of the recent dotActivist conference.
The Scottish left is in decline and crisis today, bereft of ideas and numbers. Yet a new generation of novelists provide hope of a conversation about Scotland which goes way beyond devolution and embraces genuine self-government.
Paul Kingsnorth’s journey from a degraded environmentalism to nature-centred ways of living and thinking has many echoes for Andrew Dobson, but also clarifies a difference of outlook.
Continuing OK's debate over the future of the Coalition.
"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right, has been sucked into the yawning, bottomless chasm of the 'progressive' left." A personal, twenty-year journey through the world’s wild places and the movements to protect them is a
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
Did journalists do enough to defend human rights during the troubles in Northern Ireland? That was a key question in a fascinating debate in Belfast last week under the auspices of Amnesty International and Féile an Phobail.
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.
