Category: politics

An interview with The Ink, about where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

Oligarchy is the default state of politics, and it is surging back. How do we stop it?

The Greens are the only party with a chance of winning seats that is not beholden to oligarchic power.

An election is a device for maximising conflict and minimising democracy.

Secret funding, offshore donors, control by the ultra-rich. Sorry, but this is not democracy.

A remarkable political innovation in Devon could be the beginning of a new politics.

This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s.

A shadowy network of dark-money junktanks is delivering the same disastrous political package around the world.

The striking new plan to let voters reclaim democracy in a profoundly undemocratic system.

This senseless lawsuit could bankrupt the Labour party and let the Tories win again.

Because Twitter threads aren’t working at the moment (thanks Elon!), I’m republishing a chain of tweets about how we should rise to the challenge of democratic collapse.

Just as we need to get the money out of politics, we have been gifted a Prime Minister who represents the ultra-rich.

Liz Truss has been trained and shaped by dark-money lobbyists.

To this government, the duty of care is an abomination.

How to defend ourselves from power and build a politics that belongs to us.