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Mick Hume
Problems in political life? Blame the Lib Dems!
Tories and Labour are bashing Nick Clegg’s pathetic party to try to hide the fact that they are all like the politics-lite Liberal Democrats now.
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| Wednesday 21 September 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Taking the liberal out of the Lib Dems
Telling families how to raise their kids, imprisoning journalists and banning Page 3 – welcome to the Illiberal Party.
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| Wednesday 14 September 2011 |
Mick Hume
Fewer MPs? We need more Politicians
Plans to cut the quantity of UK members of parliament will do nothing to improve the execrable quality of British political life today.
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| Wednesday 3 August 2011 |
Mick Hume
How British politics became trivial pursuits
What's really behind the summer headlines about David Cameron, that Italian waitress, Rupert Murdoch and Amy Winehouse?
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| Tuesday 14 June 2011 |
Mick Hume
Must we watch this political death show on our TVs?
All the highly publicised ‘revelations’ of personal spats confirm that the body formerly known as the Labour Party is fit only for a private burial.
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| Tuesday 17 May 2011 |
Tim Black
The electoral reform that no one wanted
As the post-defeat outpourings from Yes campaigners reveal, the 2011 referendum was an entirely elite concoction.
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| Monday 9 May 2011 |
Mick Hume
Have we ended up with AV‑style politics anyway?
Despite the crushing of the Alternative Vote in the referendum, the UK elections confirmed the strength of the anti-political trends AV embodies.
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| Wednesday 16 March 2011 |
Eero Iloniemi
Under PR, whoever wins, voters lose out
A Finnish journalist warns Brits against demanding an electoral system that has performed so miserably in Finland.
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| Tuesday 9 November 2010 |
Mick Hume
Why I’d vote for a dodgy MP over an honest judge
Phil Woolas kicked out of parliament by an electoral court, for lying? That’s a bigger scandal than anything he said about his opponents.
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| Thursday 3 June 2010 |
Mick Hume
The Laws affair: scandal ain’t what it used to be
When a minister resigns over paying rent to his secret gay lover, it is a sure sign that political life has slipped to scandalously low levels.
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| Tuesday 18 May 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Their politics and ours
We definitely need a ‘new politics’ today - but don’t expect it to come from the technocratic, ideology-free Liberal-Conservative government.
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| Thursday 6 May 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Why today’s election really is momentous...
...not because it has offered us any big or inspiring ideas, but because it has confirmed the rise and rise of a new political oligarchy.
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| Tuesday 20 April 2010 |
Mick Hume
Why nobody knows who will win
The UK election is such an arbitrary, unpredictable affair because this is the age of no-party politics – and no-politics parties.
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| Friday 16 April 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Five vaguely interesting things about that debate
The leaders’ debate might have been teeth-extendingly boring but, if you can bear to look, it did provide a snapshot of the state of politics.
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| Thursday 15 April 2010 |
Mick Hume
New Labour as the ‘lesser evil’? That’s a good one
The ludicrous spectacle of the leftovers of the left parroting their old arguments for supporting Labour is history repeated as low farce.
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| Wednesday 14 April 2010 |
spiked
A manifest lack of inspiring ideas
Roll up, roll up for spiked’s guided tour of the Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat election manifestos.
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| Wednesday 7 April 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Cameron is right, this is a very important election…
... but not for the reasons that he, Gordon Brown or Nick Clegg would have us believe.
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| Monday 15 March 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Smash the People’s Senate!
Jack Straw’s proposal for a fully elected second chamber is motivated by a desire to limit and frustrate real, direct, passionate democracy.
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| Thursday 4 March 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
We don’t owe politicians our vote
Instead of raising awareness about how to vote, how about raising the political temperature and making voting worthwhile?
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| Wednesday 3 March 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Let’s reclaim the C-word
Labour and the Tories talk non-stop about ‘change’, but only because they would rather be in a state of perpetual flux than face up to political realities.
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