There’s a good post up here on Conservative Home about what advice MPs should take seriously. I had one here a while ago about personality types – it would be good to do anything that could be done to weight these models – help the poor buggers to work out how they should be behaving [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
Can the endogeny of The New Politics help to make the Big Society idea fly?
OK, this is a hasty post – and one that is subject to this caveat. It’s far too early to trash the Big Society initiative, and as someone who doesn’t support either of the parties behind the incoming government, it’s quite painful to see them picking up so many ideas that are basically great ones [...]
What kind of election was it?
The Election 2010 blog is asking ‘what election was that‘? “The opening book in the ‘Nuffield’ election series – The British General Election of 1945 – lists a series of ‘named’ elections: 1874, when the Liberals went down in a flood of gin and beer; the Midlothian election of 1880; the Khaki election of 1900; [...]
Democracy on trial
Just a quick one: Make sure you don’t miss Radio 4′s ‘Democracy On Trial‘ series, hosted by Michael Portillo. It’s worth catching. That’s all. Carry on with what you were doing.
Creating informed communities
Apologies for the very light posting here in recent weeks. When you blog about politics and elections a lot, you probably have the excuse that you are doing rather than blogging during elections, and this is true of some of our contributors. In my case, a tide of work that was only indirectly related to [...]
Proportionality and voting reform
“Well isn’t this an exciting moment?” I got ‘the fisheye’ when I said this earlier today to a bleary-eyed crowd of people who had been canvassing for different parties in Northern Ireland. Some of them were into their thirtieth hour without sleep. There’s a time and a place for train-spottery musings about constitutional permutations. Electoral [...]
