A Scots lessonPG Wodehouse once declared that it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance...
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AV Articles
Canada’s elections shows why we must back AV
Yesterday 60 per cent of Canadian voters cast their vote for either the New Democrat party, the centre-left Liberal...
The negative ‘No’ campaign
Democracy rests not only on open debate, but also on honest debate. For the voters to make an assessment of the...
Out on the doorstep
Liberal distractions
Thirty years ago this month, Tony Benn's diary recorded his thoughts a couple of days after the launch of the new...
Rising to the occasion
The others were his House of Commons speech supporting UN Resolution 1973 on Libya; his contribution at the launch of...
Vote for a change
Progressives have a great opportunity this year to help reshape British politics for the better. The importance of the...
Positively Labour in May
A recent survey by Ipsos MORI found that 53 per cent per cent of Labour voters were in favour of a Yes vote on AV,...
The BNP and AV
The British National Party has a total of zero members of parliament. Under our first past the post electoral system...
Tanked up: The state they’re in
Apart from a few exceptions, however, it seems as though the tankers are uninterested in the battle of the initialisms...
General release
General release The job of Labour general secretary grew smaller and more unstable in government. Labour got through...
Unintended consequences?
The rapid decline of the Liberal Democrats in the polls has led to an understandable outbreak of schadenfreude...