Tomorrow the Government will release its Green Paper on the future of the BBC, here I want to write why we should keep it strong and independent. The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded on the principals to “inform, educate and entertain”, in October 1922. Since its early days it has pushed forward the mediums of radio, television and developed new technology, blazing a trail…
Tomorrow, Britain goes to the polls. The 2015 General Election is under-way and the outcome is far from certain. … If the polls are accurate, then we are facing the likely possibility of a Hung Parliament – when no party has a majority. When this happened in the 2010 General Election, it was the first time since 1974 so it could be dismissed as a one-off. Now it could be about to become a…
Today in the United States is the Midterms, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested; along with 38 state and territorial governorships, 46 state legislatures (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia). The naming of the elections as “midterm” makes it seem like is have less weight…
A recent governement defeat reminds me of what I value in our unelected upper house. … This is an subject which I had not been planning to write about quite so soon, however I found a friend gathering opinions on Twitter in the aftermath of a government defeat on a controversial bill currently going through Parliament. … The bill in question was the ‘Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing…
