On procedure and politics

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined

Political Bias and Perception

We all know (I hope) that our political biases colour how we view things. For example, someone with very conservative, right-wing views reading a newspaper such as The Toronto Star or The Guardian will not see their own views reflected in the editorials and commentaries (and probably not even in the way the news is [...]

The Woolas ruling

On 5 November 2010, a Labour MP and former minister, Phil Woolas, was stripped of his seat and barred from running for public office for three years after having been found guilty by an election court of violating the Representation of the People Act 1983. He was also ousted from the Labour Party. An election [...]

Prisoners and the right to vote

One hotly debated topic in the UK right now is the right of prisoners to vote. Currently, in the UK, prisoners don’t have the right to vote, and this dates back to 1870, but a legal challenge by a convicted murderer, John Hirst, led to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling finve years [...]

What if they threw an AV election and everyone FPTP’d?

(Are you looking for information on how voting works under AV? Please see this post.) While there continues to be a regular stream of articles, blog posts and commentary on the proposed referendum on the Alternative Vote, most of these focus on either why AV is good/bad or what previous/future elections might look like under [...]

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