I’d like to write a series of posts here in defence of the political Party system. I’m conscious that this is not an elegant or fashionable position to take, and it’s certainly not one of those lines that you can defend in the 140 character Twitter template. I’d go further: It takes a series of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Political parties’
Cognitive polyphasia and devolved politics
BBC Radio 4′s Analysis programme – and the podcast – are essential listening for anyone with even the slightest wonkish tendencies. Just after posting on ‘cognitive polyphasia‘ a few days ago, I listened to this programme from their archive about the problems that devolution is creating for parties that were established as ‘national’ parties. One [...]
Distributed moral wisdom – mayors and political parties.
I find it almost impossible to take a blog seriously when its central claim is that any British government in the recent past of forseeable future is really lurching towards totalitarianism. It is with this proviso that I offer a semi-approving link to this post. The elected police chief – like the elected Mayor – [...]