A dog’s dinner?
In publishing his proposals for Lords Reform, our Deputy PM invited constructive criticism of the proposals. He didn’t get it. Rather, he got a chorus of abuse from both the…
A 5 Year Plan for the Left in the NUS
In April 2016, the NUS elects a progressive left-wing President and two or three VPs. This is no surprise: there have been a couple of lefty officers for a few…
Taking democratic reform beyond electoral reform
Next week we'll go to polls to vote for councillors, AMs, MSPs and a new voting system for Westminster. Then we'll all go back to our lives and forget about…
The Case for Parliamentary Reform
Image courtesy of UK Parliament via flickr In all the debate around the AV bill we often forget that democratic reform is much wider than just electoral reform. A modern,…