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Promises, promises

  • 21 October 2002

An audit of new Labour's record reveals a democratic deficit at the heart of government

The quangos just grow and grow

  • 09 April 2001

Despite the promise of a people's government, the country is increasingly run by unaccountable, secretive crony networks

The great white shark of Whitehall

  • 05 February 2001

Forget about Tony Blair's "presidential" powers. It is HM Treasury that now dominates government. Its role should be diminished, argues Stuart Weir

We're all liberals now

  • 20 November 2000

Support for human rights goes far beyond the metropolitan elite, reports Stuart Weir

Dirty deeds in deepest Devon

  • 17 July 2000

Labour's latest ideas for electoral reform are a dangerous stitch-up, argues Stuart Weir

The long war against democracy

  • 10 April 2000

The real battle in Zimbabwe is not against white farmers. Mugabe's target is a black middle-class committed to modernity and rock music

We stopped Boadicea's chariot

  • 27 November 1998

Stuart Weirargues that the success of Charter 88 (aged ten this week) proves that people are not weary of democracy, just of Westminster

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