It’s an interesting twist to the question I’ve been asking, on and off, over the past few weeks: What kind of representatives do we want?
So far, the options have included jurors, rogues and public paragons of virtue. But over on Spiked Online, Brendan O’Neill suggests a somewhat alarming possibility: Maybe we need people who are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
The consequence of a retreat from politics?
Why the hyperactivity?
One of the great divides between the people who comment on politics, and the people who do it for a living goes something like this:
Commentariat: Why do politicians feel the need to be constantly making announcements and being seen to do stuff – even to the point of preferring to do something pointless – or [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
