Is there any problem with the way that the ‘foreign prisoners’ issue has been discussed in most of the media in the UK? In my view, emphatically, yes. Is it an appropriate policy response to the accusation of not having competently managed the existing procedures for managing the deportation or release of foreign prisoners for [...]

London council performance data Library visits per capita, and everything else you could possibly want to know ahead of the local elections.

Don’t confuse “the economy” with “the interests of those who hold economic power”

I’ve written before that I’m not a huge fan of direct democracy, not in the sense of doing away with MPs and replacing them with referenda. Fatally, demand-revealing governance hands more power to the rich, then compounds the error by legitimizing it. This is unacceptable.
I prefer a proportional representation system like open-list PR or a [...]