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A one-sided demand for transparency?

Two weeks ago, Internet campaigners made a decisive intervention on what was, as far as the media were concerned, a big story.
Perhaps the most prominent single political blogger in the UK – Guido Fawkes – was followed by perhaps the leading alliance of hacktivists MySociety in demanding that MPs desist from exempting themselves from the [...]

MPs websites – politics on the rates?

As there are a couple of good posts in the mainstream political blogosphere touching upon the qualities that are needed to promote an effective representative democracy, today is a good day to start a blog on the subject. This post will focus on the most topical:
Both Puffbox and Spartakan are chewing over the fact that [...]