Citizen Assemblies will be owned and run by the outgoing elements of the middles classes - who also own and run the parties and the administrative system. Referenda don’t have that that problem. Inde… (View Post)

Please tell me they’re not planning on having it write out all the possible names of God…? (View Post)

The shock would be if the majority of them turned out at all. (View Post)

The underlying issue is that those pit villages have no reason to exit. They came into being because of a hole in the ground and they ceased to have purpose when that hole ran fallow. Spending money … (View Post)

What we need are simplistic solutions where we send one pound abroad to get seventy pence back. (View Post)