The problem is that at the moment ‘democracy’ appears almost synonymous with ‘elections’ and this robs it of its potential. Democracy is about more than a vote. Heading image: Election MG 3455. By Rama. CC BY-SA 2.0 fr via Wikimedia Commons. Matthew Flinders is Director of the Sir...
The Politics Media Equation:Exposing Two Faces of Old Nexus Through Study of General Elections,Wikileaks and Radia TapesThe important identity of a responsible media is playing an unbiased role in reporting a matter without giving unnecessary hype to attract the attention of the gullible public with...
The recent elections to the Labour Party National Executive Committee mark a decisive and critical turning point in UK Labour’s destiny. If (or as is looking likely, when) the NEC falls under the sway of the Jeremy Corbyn supporting left all of the last bulwarks of Blairite and centrist ...
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for control of the local authority. British local government elections have always tended to go against the national government – the public wisely keen to distribute power between parties. After nearly 18 years of Conservative rule they had handed much of local government across the UK to Labour...
In the run-up to the 2016 United States Presidential elections, the Chief Executive of Reddit, Steve Huffman, came into dispute with users of the Donald Trump supporters’ subreddit/r/The_Donald. They once again pointed out the apparently hypocritical targeting of them, using as their example ...
‘troll farms’ interfering with the United States elections to help get Donald Trump elected(archivehere). There is incredibly powerful evidence of Russian innocence.Wikileaks, who released the emails, say they got the ‘hacked’ emails from Democratic staffers and it had nothing to do with ...
Big Tech are alleged to have sought to influence elections not just in the United States but in other countries such as Uganda, which has banned them until at least after the election. North Dakotaalready has legislative proposals(archive). ...