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Omar Salem Articles

Welcoming when the right changes its mind

Nelson Mandela was fond of Martin Luther King’s phrase, ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice’. Barack Obama was surely right to say of Mandela that he ‘took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice’....

Stop Boris to stop the Tories

On practically every major policy Boris Johnson is joined at the hip with David Cameron and George Osborne. That is why Thursday's London mayoral election is so important. It is a chance for Londoners to deliver a verdict not just on Boris' record as mayor, but on the...

We should remember Luke Bozier

The saying goes that today's newspapers are tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers. Perhaps the apotheosis of this dictum will be the recent defection of Luke Bozier to the Tories. Bozier's defection was followed by a flurry of newspaper stories and a veritable storm on...

We can do better than the Alternative Vote

Peter Hain has consistently argued, including most recently in Progress magazine, that the Alternative Vote (AV) is the only system that pragmatically stands a chance of replacing first-past-the-post. There are a number of reasons, though, why electoral reformers should be wary of following Hain in throwing their weight behind efforts to introduce the AV.