Bulgaria has begun parliamentary proceedings for staging a referendum on whether public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) should continue a special daily news bulletin in Turkish.
In a move which resembles the recent ban on Minarets in Switzerland, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boiko Borissov, and his ruling party GERB have publicly endorsed the campaign launched by [...]
I have been working for our French colleagues in the Parti Socialiste for 6 months now, and though I don’t know what a Jedward is, I have been able to experience ‘continental democracy’.
The debate about electoral reform in Britain has always been “PR or not to PR”, with the third way of AV or AV+ [...]
The episode of Question Time which featured the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, has just aired.
Once again, Twitter came into full force. According to @tweetminster there were up to 53.5K tweets with 12.49 tweets per second at close of #bbcqt.
Analysis of the debate will no doubt dominate the headlines and the blogosphere tomorrow and for [...]
Bloggers launch the “Coalition Against No Platform“
Today I am pleased to publish a new page, the Coalition Against No Platform, a directory of bloggers and articles from all political parties.
We believe that the No Platform policy, where speakers refuse to participate in debates at which the BNP or other undesirables are present is foolish at best [...]
Yesterday concluded a massive public consultation across the whole of France.
The French were asking themselves about the privatisation of the postal service, La Poste. When I say “asking themselves” I mean it literally; the whole project was a mock referendum.
The mock referendum was designed to show support for a real referendum, which is turn is [...]
