I’ve been following the development of Democracy 2015 in a professional and personal capacity since it launched this summer and listened with interest to Andreas Whittam Smith’s speech at the Unlock Democracy AGM on Saturday. Sadly as a result of Whittam Smith’s speech on Saturday I’ve been forced to reassess the project, away from a… Continue reading Andreas Whittam Smith and why Democracy 2015 should be called Technocracy 2015
Tag: anti-politics
Zac Goldsmith, Peter Watt and the anti-politics age
On the face of it, Zac Goldsmith and Peter Watt are two very different people. One thing they have common however is that they are high stakes rollers in the game of politics who claim to not be politicians. Writing in today’s New Statesman, Peter Watt bemoans the fact that: Working in front-line politics is… Continue reading Zac Goldsmith, Peter Watt and the anti-politics age
Why the green movement fails [ADDENDUM]
I went on the National Climate March yesterday, as those who read my tweets will be painfully aware. The march itself was the usual festive fun, although not well attended (the organisers say 10,000 people attended, the police say 5,000 – by my own estimate it was somewhere between the two): (credit: Helen Duffett @… Continue reading Why the green movement fails [ADDENDUM]