Browsing: democracy

Wales is a wonderfully unusual country and that is why I love it. But one quirk about Wales I really dislike is how increasingly often I…

A Reform council leader’s decision to ban his councillors from engaging with a prominent local newspaper is a “massive attack on local democracy” and a sign…

Returning from holiday, asked where I have been, I want to say “offline”. The more precise answer is France, where the internet is available. But I…

In Kenya, as in many countries across the world, street protests are often framed as the unfortunate result of political failure. As the logic goes, the…

Half a century since the national voting age was last lowered, Keir Starmer has decided the time is right to include more than a million 16-…