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Tim Black
A transparent attempt to resuscitate politics
A new UK government website reveals every ministerial lunch and penny of spending, but it only reinforces the problem of distrust.
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| Wednesday 10 February 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
MPs at work are above the law, and rightly so
The post-expenses-scandal idea that MPs are ‘nothing special’ is another way of saying that the public’s choices and desires are nothing special.
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| Tuesday 17 November 2009 |
Mick Hume
Election: up for grabs, but nothing to play for
As Gordon Brown launches the General Election campaign, the one certainty seems to be that we won't be offered any political choice.
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| Wednesday 22 July 2009 |
Mick Hume
What good’s an election without alternatives?
In the hands of the UK’s non-political parties, the historic crisis of the system is in danger of becoming an historic missed opportunity.
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| Thursday 11 June 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
The hangdog dictator in Downing Street
It is the cowardice of his own party and lack of moral authority of the other parties that allows the utterly isolated Brown to stay in power.
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| Monday 8 June 2009 |
Mick Hume
Expenses, excuses and Labour delusions
Whether Gordon Brown stays or goes, New Labour’s political crisis goes far deeper than him.
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| Monday 8 June 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
The psycho-politics of a collapsing elite
The most revealing thing about the leaked Mandelson emails is the amateur psychologising of a cut-off government.
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| Monday 8 June 2009 |
Rob Lyons
The myth of a far-right surge
The BNP won seats not because support for it has exploded, but because of the demise of the mainstream parties.
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| Monday 1 June 2009 |
Mick Hume
They’re all ‘independent’ now - but from what?
In response to the expenses scandal, even the PM wants to stand on his personal conscience rather than political principles. But we still need politics.
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| Monday 1 June 2009 |
Rob Lyons
No party has a divine right to exist
The state funding of parties would prop up the exhausted status quo and erect a barrier to political experimentation.
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| Monday 1 June 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
The implosion of the political class
The expenses scandal is not A Very English Revolution. It looks more like the self-destruction of the House of Commons.
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| Tuesday 26 May 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Taking refuge in the rhetoric of reform
By proposing electoral reforms in response to the expenses scandal, politicians are futilely seeking an organisational solution to a political problem.
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| Tuesday 26 May 2009 |
Mick Hume
When all else fails, bash the BNP
In its phoney moral crusade to stop the British National Party, the elite has replaced politics with emotional blackmail.
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| Tuesday 26 May 2009 |
Tim Black
The question is: trust you to do what?
Politicians’ efforts to ‘restore public trust’ suggest they see the public as a passive blob to be moulded at will.
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| Tuesday 19 May 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Beware the vultures circling the Commons
With cops baying for MPs’ blood and the Queen expressing her distaste, Britain’s undemocratic forces are milking the expenses scandal.
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| Thursday 14 May 2009 |
Tim Black
Paying politicians is good for democracy
Forget the expenses scandal: politics was far more rotten when only the privileged few could afford to be MPs.
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| Tuesday 12 May 2009 |
Mick Hume
MPs’ expenses: what price democracy?
When politicians’ claims for the cost of a bath plug can knock the recession out of the headlines, politics is in danger of going down the gurgler.
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