Democracy
Elections
Democracy
SNP Leadership Runners And Riders
If Westminster politics is show business for ugly people then the Holyrood equivalent is a pantomime for the deformed and demented. Amidst a blizzard of criticism for putting rapists in women’s jails and the inability [more…]
21st Century
Kenya Election Context
Some more on the background context of how Kenya got to where it currently is. The presidential contest election was effectively a two-horse race between Deputy President William Ruto and veteran politician Raila Odinga. Neither [more…]
21st Century
Danger to Kenya’s Democracy
21 August 2022 Westerners, the outgoing president (Uhuru Kenyatta), and former opposition leader (Raila Odinga) wish to force a barmy government in which the pursuit of citizen wellbeing is halted in favour of pursuing undefined [more…]
America
Restoring the Republic by Stealth
Virtually all measures tried to date to restore faith in our election process and thus the election results at all levels have been turned aside procedurally by our self-interested institutions. However two new cases at [more…]
Communism
Elected Lords
Sir Keith Starmer’s call for an elected House of Lords brings to mind the conundrum caused when you replace an essentially toothless institution with an elected one. This applies equally to an elected President replacing [more…]
Economics
OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Fifteen
This has been an article that has evolved during the writing of the rest of the series. Initially more about introspection. It is now also an amendment of the start of the series and a [more…]
Economics
OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Fourteen
Traditional family from 10,000 BC to about 1975 AD A man and woman would marry, the man would provide and the woman would keep house and bring up children, supporting each other along the way. [more…]
America
A Puffin’s Guide to The Midterms
What are the midterms? The midterms are elections contested halfway between US presidential elections. With the last presidential election (the Steal) being on the first Tuesday of November 2020 and the next presidential election being [more…]