Monday, 16 October 2023

Tomorrow’s Communities: renewing our democratic infrastructure

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Our democratic infrastructure comprises the cultures, rules, systems, and practices that facilitate collective deliberations and cooperative...
Sunday, 1 October 2023

Battling Disempowerment: a 9-point plan

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Here’s a question: why is it that whenever people are given the opportunity to discuss in an informed and reasonable manner what should be d...
Saturday, 16 September 2023

Fiddlers on the Hoof: Con Politics Explained

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In the 2010s, UKIP pulled Con politics in the UK further and further to the right. From 2016, Trump dragged Con politics in the US in a simi...
Friday, 1 September 2023

Counter-Enlightenment, Anti-Woke

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The ‘Anti-Woke’ bandwagon has been picking up speed in stirring up anger and resentment against ideas that annoy reactionaries. Exposing pre...
Wednesday, 16 August 2023

The Theft of Political Clothes

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From time to time, we hear one political party fretting about another party stealing their clothes. If people want their ideas and policies ...
Tuesday, 1 August 2023

Crimes Against Democracy

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Since 2010, democracy in the UK has suffered from numerous attempts by Conservative-led governments to undermine it. In 2014, the method for...
Sunday, 16 July 2023

Čapek’s Empathy Test

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2023 marks the centenary of the first staging of Karel Čapek ’s revolutionary play,  R.U.R.  in England – at the St. Martin’s Theatre, West ...