In the current UK election campaign ‘honesty’ has become a byword. All the main parties proclaim their intention to ‘tell it straight’. Does their enthusiasm hide a deeper wish to deceive?
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
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
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.
The BBC continues to defend the privacy of its accounting from the National Audit Office. The BBC is proud of public trust in the organisation, but doesn't let the public know a great deal about where it spends public money.
