Only around 10% of humanity still live in so-called ‘full’, ‘liberal’ democracies. That fraction is shrinking. Yet again, leaderism and authoritarian regimes are spreading. Their rise is fuelled partly by…
17 Feb, 2023
Proportional Representation
14 Feb, 2023
Press release: Democracy campaigners respond to ‘unrepresentative’ council after voting reform row
Cross-party campaigners in North Yorkshire have rejected claims by Conservative councillors that they wasted council time by calling for a change to the voting system. A meeting of the Conservative…
02 Feb, 2023
Why Gordon Brown’s constitutional reforms need PR
Last year Gordon Brown launched his long-awaited report on the future of the UK constitution. One of the major criticisms of his proposals is that they do not include electoral…
20 Dec, 2022
The Ideology problem and how Proportional Representation can fix this
It is unlikely that you will find anyone who disagrees that the premiership of Liz Truss was a turbulent affair. As a lived experience, it was a mess bereft of…
26 Oct, 2022
Permanent Vote
The ‘right moment’ to write this piece seems to have been ever-present over the last year. However, with Labour recently backing PR, then the absolute temerity of The Conservative Party…
19 Oct, 2022
Clive Lewis MP: From 2022 Labour Party Conference
This is a transcription of a speech Clive Lewis MP gave on the 26th September 2022 at the Win As One event at Labour Party Conference. You can watch a…
30 Sep, 2022
Green Party Conference: Eat the Greens
As the news round focused on the Labour conference and PM Liz Truss this week, you could be forgiven for not realising that the Green Party conference is taking place…
15 Oct, 2021
Labour and electoral reform: rage against the machine
Labour's high command is living in the past, and British progressives of every stripe will soon pay the price. At its recent conference in Brighton, Labour narrowly rejected a motion…
20 Oct, 2020
How the system hurts UK democracy
Shortly after the UK general election of December 2019 I wrote a policy article for the spring 2020 edition of Global Discourse, setting out what my involvement in politics has taught…
20 Jul, 2020
Corbynism and Electoral Reform: will Labour ever back PR?
June 2020 saw voting reform take place. This reform was not a change to the voting system for Westminster elections, but how one third of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC)…
09 Jan, 2020
Labour and Proportional Representation
For the first time someone pitching to lead the Labour Party is demanding that it embrace proportional voting. Clive Lewis has not yet set out his stall in full. But…
17 Dec, 2019
Why we desperately need a Progressive Alliance
As we contemplate the prospect of five more years of the Tories, I am more convinced than ever that under our broken-beyond-repair electoral system, only a progressive alliance offers real…