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Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Monday, 18 January 2021

We Need to Talk About Democracy

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We all think we know what a democracy is, don’t we? Growing up, the common retort to somebody poking their nose into your business was “It’s...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2018

Unrepresentative Democracy

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Few successful companies are even remotely egalitarian and no empire ever was. The organisational structures which have brought the greates...
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Monday, 5 March 2018

Democratic Deficit

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Another week, another round of Brexit, the fantasy rise of the far right, the deification of the NHS and many pointless exchanges between p...
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Monday, 20 April 2015

Dumbocracy

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Nobody knows what will happen in the General Election. Nobody. Nobody knows how whatever ruling coalition emerges will govern. Nobody. Nobo...
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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Wasted Votes...

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This country is fucked, isn’t it? Really, when you stop to think about it, whatever was left of The British after the war has been steadily...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Look before you leap... but leap if you want.

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On the drive in this morning I heard Scottish author Denise Mina, reading her essay on why she supports the NO vote in the imminent Scottis...
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Monday, 5 May 2014

Nobody Knows

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I’ve learned a lot of things from the internet. It’s a marvellously democratic vehicle for getting facts and opinions out there. Despite it...
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Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Exterminate?

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In Davos, a bunch of jokers who believe, or at least proclaim, that they represent the populations of the First World are meeting to discus...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

The Falkirk Dilemma

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In these straitened times, choices have to be made. Over the last winter the opposition made much play of the supposed fact that some famil...
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Proper Propaganda

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I don’t go out of my way to upset people, really I don’t. I just tell it how I see it and let them make up their own minds. I lose quite a ...
Tuesday, 3 July 2012

None as blind

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So, they're going to have an inquiry into the blacker-than-black hearts of the evil bankers who dared to lend the money that allowed the...
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