9th January 2019 With democracy becoming an endangered species, is sustainability in peril? Even with David Attenborough speaking on behalf of The People at the Climate talks in Poland, you wouldn’t have guessed from the media coverage that arresting the ever-growing emissions of climate-damaging gasses was the most important challenge …
What are we voting for?
18th April 2017 “Referendums represent a radical reduction of democracy to its most skeletal form: majority rule. Too often, they are called in order to circumvent some obstacle thrown up by political or legal institutions … Whatever the intent, such referendums are an end run around the structures and safeguards …