Tag: uk politics

  • The extraordinary decision by Democracy Volunteers to shroudwave about “family voting” for the Gorton and Denton by-election has damaged both trust in the political system and harmed race relations.

    The baseless innuendo of “family voting”
  • Centrism has never been liberal and is now in direct opposition to it. Liberals need to reject it and embrace a more optimistic vision of the future

    In defence of liberalism part two: centrism
  • I decided a few weeks ago to break my blogging silence in the run up to the referendum, and the events of yesterday have somewhat concentrated my mind. I had imagined this article would be a magnificent rant about the lies and hate-mongering of the Leave campaign, but as I come to write this, I’ve…

    Why I’ll be voting “remain”
  • Sadly, as with all articles about my political beliefs these days, this has degenerated into a rambling mess. This is why I write, let alone publish, so few blog posts these days. Nonetheless, I’ve decided to publish and be damned this time, which in turn might explain why I’m quite so all over the place.…

    My Lib Dem ambivalence
  • Vote Match has launched for the general election today and for the first time since the project started in 2008, my fingerprints aren’t all over it (declaration: I am of course married to the Unlock Democracy director, which is behind Vote Match). The design I built for the 2010 general election has been replaced by…

    Why political elites hate Vote Match