Democracy

David TC Davies refused to be interviewed by a journalist who'd dug into allegations of climate change denialism and his equal rights stance

Councils could have to choose between hiring extra staff to implement the change or informing voters that their vote is at risk, Byline Times has learned

Fascist attack on Brazilian Congress, and its financiers, will be punished says new left president Lula da Silva New left-wing Brazilian president Lula da Silva has ordered the National Guard into the country’s capital to quell riots and attacks by fascist supporters of defeated former president Jair Bolsonaro. da Silva, who was only sworn in […]

Many members of the Conservative Party's lords bench seem to be taking indefinite strike action, Byline Times analysis suggests

The links between Brazil's far-right leaders and the US Stop The Steal activists suggest a globally-connected movement determined to attack democracy, reports Sian Norris

This is excellent work from Tortoise Media (for, as they say, slow news)… It is worth listening to the short introduction below – then the link to the database itself is here: A real democratic service which makes for interesting reading – even when you discover that your own MP, like mine, hasn’t really received... Read more

I think that the right to strike is unquestionably a democratic right as argued in the Guardian here – surely anything else is just indentured labour? Apparently the way to tame the unions is to destroy their immunity from being sued for any harm striking might cause – or as the same article puts it:... Read more

Ever since Donald Trump became president, Democrats have taken to equating the fate of their own party to the fate of American democracy. In a two-party system, the logical conclusion is that this is profoundly undemocratic.

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by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 There are quite a few economists who suffer from …

The post New Keynesians, mathematics and democracy appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.

There is an interesting recent article on buses from the ‘I’ Newspaper pointing out the disastrous consequences of Thatcher’s deregulatory regime, which has led to a decline in bus passengers everywhere except where the deregulation didn’t happen – which is London, such that London now accounts for almost half of all bus passengers in the... Read more