Clik here to view.
The straight choice
Richard Pope, Francis Irving and Julian Todd have developed a site – The Straight Choice – that allows you to upload election leaflets as they come through your door – with the intention of promoting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reductio ad absurdum
Continuing Brendan O’Neill’s theme about the reduction of politics to the question of how efficiently politicians can tick the ‘democracy’ box, Simon Jenkins picks up on the calls for fewer MPs and...
View ArticleMore cognitive polyphasia
Responding to the Guardian’s reader-survey about reshaping our democratic settlement, David Blunkett offers a good illustration of the cognitive polyphasia that colours so much public debate of these...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The politics of interactivity
I’m currently convening a number of sessions at a Nesta conference on the 6th July called ‘Reboot Britain’, running a strand called ‘PICamp’ – Political Innovation Camp. I’m looking for local...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Denham: Going centralist?
Denham: Centraliser or soothsayer? Over on the LGIU blog, Jonathan Carr-West is not impressed with John Denham’s conditions for the devolution of powers to local government: “So we find ourselves...
View ArticlePolitical Innovation Camp at Reboot Britain
I thought I’d offer you a bit of an outline of the PICamp (Political Innovation Camp) strands that are making up part of NESTA’s Reboot Britain event next week. You’ll see that the sessions that are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transparency – sticking plaster or panacea?
MySociety‘s Tom Steinberg has, for some years, been urging government to adapt some of the lessons that successful websites have learned. Here he is, writing one of the Reboot Britain essays serialised...
View ArticleClik here to view.
To the barricades!
Power to the people! The #rebootbritain hashtag on Twitter went haywire on Monday as over 700 people attended the event – I spent over an hour on Tuesday night searching through it and the earliest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who will cover the cost of ‘scrutiny’?
Pic: Okko Pyykkö - click for attribution. Anthony has beat me to a response to the new Green Paper today, so I thought I’d develop his scepticism about the appetite for ‘scrutiny’. For me, the...
View ArticleOn the long finger
Just a quick one to round the week off. I missed this post yesterday on Paul Waugh’s site. I won’t accuse George Osborne of cowardice for saying this because he’s hardly unique in this respect: But he...
View Article
