My boss has written a nice post about the last episodes of the West Wing last night, linking it with the House of Lords Constitution Committee’s report this week on Royal prerogative. For me, the “choke” moment of the two episodes was the bit when Bartlet gave Charlie his copy of the US Constitution. But… Continue reading Constitutions and the choke factor
Tag: democratic-renewal
Freedland on the Conservative and Anti-Unionist Party
At the risk of having my comments filled with swivel-eyed loons with an penchant for calling everyone who doesn’t agree with them a “c***”, I just thought I’d recommend Jonathan Freedland’s article on the Tories’ daft proposals on breaking up the UK. There are however, the points in this I take exception to: You don’t… Continue reading Freedland on the Conservative and Anti-Unionist Party
Make Absentions Count?
I’m usually quite sceptical of a lot of the schemes you read about on tinternet for solving our problems with democracy in this country, but this idea is at least worth debating: I want to see political parties get penalized for a low electoral turn out. In other words, if we are fed up with… Continue reading Make Absentions Count?