Category: politics

Killer Clowns

Why are so many nations now led by extravagant buffoons? Because the nature of capitalism has changed.

Our toxic political system produces toxic leaders. We should design a system that rewards kindness and honesty.

The government’s refusal to respond to our democratic emergency is one symptom of systemic political failure

Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no deal Brexit.

A world-changing experiment in London’s poorest borough shows how to break out of our disastrous spiral of alienation.

When governments abandon us, we must step up

Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks

The little-known history of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in a New York primary hints at a coming transformation in US politics

Is complex society on the brink of collapse?

Our representative democracy is scarcely worthy of the name. 21st Century politics demands a more participatory system

Here are my proposals for a new politics, designed for the 21st Century

Brexit should be halted until we know who paid for the Leave vote

This election could transform our captured, corrupted nation. The outcome, as ever, belongs to those who turn up

How dark money is subverting democracy in the UK.

Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation.

I would rather live with Jeremy Corbyn’s gentle dithering than Theresa May’s brutal efficiency

Why would Scotland wish to be tethered to the political wasteland south of the border?

Digital technologies could be used to destroy democracy, or to save it.

This is how to stop demagogues and extremists: rebuild community.

Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them.