… 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. [...]
Posts under ‘The Social Contract’
Change from the bottom up?
One of this blog’s new contributors, Halina Ward, is currently in Copenhagen at the Climate Change Conference. The main reason she is there is to write a post for us (ahem). One thing she has passed on to me is a scepticism about the problems surrounding ‘bottom up’ solutions to the problem of carbon emissions. [...]
Poppies and public consent
Not directly related to local democracy, I know, but I’ve written a post here on Slugger O’Toole responding to an Irish republican about how far the wearing of a poppy can be seen as an endorsement for the actions of the British state. It raises important questions about the legitimacy of democracy and I hope [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
