I'm a big fan of citizen assemblies, but all forms of participatory politics have the same issue - that some people find it easier to participate than others. Generally it is easier for people i… (View Post)

The simplicity of voting in an STV system is definitely one of the attractions. The voter does not have to worry about tactical voting, or trying to guess how other people will vote. They simply rank… (View Post)

I suppose at least Trump has other people invent new awards to give him, rather than having to do it himself. French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize https://www… (View Post)

One way round this is to provide people with a dummy extra ballot that they can take a photo of, to satisfy the person trying to coerce them, while they put their true voting intention on a genuine b… (View Post)

The Tory opinion poll shares are a bit better now than they were at their nadir ~8 months ago. (View Post)