The tribal gladiator fights between the different groups of society can be excruciatingly tedious. But this is the way of the world and part of every recalibration process.
In January the Prime Minister honoured a long-standing Conservative manifesto commitment of establishing ‘votes for life’ to British nationals living overseas.
In the long term, AI opens on many opportunities for society. But the risk of harm is more significant than ever. Bad actors will use this year’s elections to practice and improve their anti-democratic campaigns.
Countries with greater wealth distribution – like Iceland or Austria – have seen the smallest losses of faith in democracy. Every new homeowner is another convert to the idea that democracy can work for them.
The Supreme Court could only decide it had the power to strike down legislation if it already possessed that power. Authority cannot be established by appeal to itself.
Or does Brussels propose to put up with Orban’s provocations and allow him to assume next year the presidency of the EU?
He describes the authoritarian and grossly under-reported way in which our future MPs, and ministers, are being chosen.
Garvan Walshe is a former National and International Security Policy Adviser to the Conservative Party Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It only survives if citizens and the politicians they elect defend political institutions and keep those who would destroy them out of power. This is the idea behind militant democracy, whose name we owe to the […]
The purpose of the Conservative Party is to win elections, form a government, and deliver calmly and carefully considered Tory policies for the benefit of the nation. It is not merely to be a voice “making the argument” for conservative ideals.
These plans are hasty, pricey, dishonest about the issue they claim to be tackling – and seem to be mainly about suppressing the non-Tory vote.
Ordinary voters have the luxury of damning our representatives without facing up to the contradictions and trade-offs of democratic government.
The ability to put politics aside and deprioritise it is fundamentally good. Not caring about politics is a luxury usually reserved for people in well-run democracies.
History warns us that nothing good will come from abandoning small nations to Russia’s imperial ambitions.