Politics

There are few more satisfying and enjoyable sights that watching politicians being discomforted by confrontations with ordinary members of the public, the very people that in a democracy – oh so inconveniently – they need votes from in order to reach and retain their positions of power and [...]

For my sins, I watched the whole of the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 yesterday morning, which included a featured a 15 minute-plus interview with Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Lib-Dems. Ostensibly, his purpose in agreeing to be interviewed – apart from having his vanity button [...]

As I expected – although it seems that Education Secretary Michael Gove, accused of playing politics with the varied opinions upon the cause of World War One, has been told by some Cabinet colleagues to ‘button it’ – the ripples from his Daily Mail article at the beginning [...]

The great British public, indeed any democratic society, allegedly gets the government and political masters it deserves. That’s why it is vital that light and magnifying glasses should be trained constantly upon the workings and operation of those who control the legislative process. [...]

Britain’s main political parties are worried about what they perceive as progressive voter apathy. Fewer people are actually bothering to sign up as party members and the percentages voting – in both General and local elections – are declining. Various attempts to arrest the slide, such as [...]

In the wake of yesterday’s publicity over the interim report of the independent Airports Commission, chaired by Sir Howard Davies, into the future of commercial aviation in the UK – contrary to some expectations, listing one Gatwick and two Heathrow schemes on a shortlist of three, with [...]

Today I return, albeit briefly, to the subject of MPs salaries – and with just a smidgeon of reluctance, borne of not wishing to flog a dead horse. I noticed this weekend, on the website of The Guardian/Observer, a report upon the findings of economists Professor Naci Mocan and Professor Duha [...]