As a prelude to a bit of election-related fun research, I’m compiling a list of the different attributes that we expect to see combined under the bonnet of the perfect MP. Just for the avoidance of doubt, I don’t expect any candidate to fit firmly into any of these categories – I’m going to be [...]
Posts under ‘Clerical representation’
Whiter than white?
Do we really want politicians to be public paragons of virtue? A good deal of what I read tends to work on the assumption that we do. Take this, for example: “As technology evolves, the same public information laws create novel and in some cases previously unimaginable levels of transparency. In many cases, particularly those [...]
We know what you don't want. Now what DO you want?
The Guardian’s Catherine Bennett is right to be worried about the impact that a climate of hypercommentary on personal tics will have on politics: “With the internet demanding ever-improving performance skills from its principal actors, Westminster can only become less hospitable to people who look more like Menzies Campbell than Ant and Dec. Unless, that [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
