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Wednesday 21 September 2011	Vote for Politics


Mick Hume Last orders for public liberties? The all-party support for yet another crackdown on drinkers is a sign of the illiberal times – and a far cry from past battles over booze.

Monday 11 January 2010
Brendan O’Neill Labour Party: destroying itself with ‘H-Bombs’ The so-called Hewitt-Hoon ‘coup’ merely confirmed that the less public purpose Labour has, the more internally corrosive it becomes.

Tuesday 22 December 2009
Mick Hume The decade that politics forgot …or perhaps more accurately, the Noughties was the decade when we forgot about politics.

Wednesday 2 December 2009
Tim Black The problem is not us. It’s you John Bercow’s attack on Heat-reading, ‘under-informed’ voters shows that he doesn’t understand the crisis of politics.

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.

Wednesday 11 November 2009
Brendan O’Neill ‘Lettergate’ reveals the illiteracy of British politics The bizarre controversy over Gordon Brown’s letter to a grieving mum shows that we urgently need to improve and deepen political debate.

Wednesday 4 November 2009
Mick Hume Who elected these knights to rule parliament? Grubby elected – and kick-outable – MPs are still more of a democratic choice than squeaky-clean appointed and unaccountable civil servant Sirs.

Monday 19 October 2009
Brendan O’Neill The fight to re-enfranchise the electorate starts here If the next General Election is to have any real impact, it must be turned from a technical affair into a big, loud public debate about the future.
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