Debategraph on the G20

David of Debategraph has dissected the G20 communique, using his Debategraph application.
Quite a brilliant idea, Debategraph. It does everything that a pro-democracy technology should do - it enables a wide range of people to rationalise a problem. Once that’s done, elected politicians can make and explain their decisions - not in terms of interests bought [...]

Causes of centralisation (Continued): The ‘level playing field’

This is turning into a series - I hope you can indulge me?
In my most recent post here, I outlined the view that political parties have the potential to work against the general tendency towards the centralisation of government, that their decline mirrored an increasing centralisation, and that anyone who wanted to reverse this trend [...]