… or you get the politicians you deserve pt2. Like a million other people, I attended the London demonstration against the Iraq War in early 2003. And like a hefty minority of people there, I had a few concerns about a lot of the opposition to the war as well as about the war itself. [...]
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Steady state on citizenship stats
The England Citizenship Survey for April – December 2008 was published the other day by CLG (pdf, Excel data). Overall, despite the onset of the financial crisis, attitudes to and participation in politics don’t seem to have changed much. A few headlines: Only one fifth of people (22%) feel that they can influence decisions taken [...]
Demonstrations and democracy: Six gambits
Scottish left-wing political blogger Shuggy had a good post up about the G20 demonstrations that took place in London a couple of weeks ago. I think that he’s right about the ‘they are all just Trustafarians’ question (they aren’t), though I think that some of the critics of the demonstrators are onto something with this [...]
