Should Andy Burnham make voting compulsory?
When voters stay at home, progressives lose out
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Andy Burnham is already under pressure over electoral reform
The incoming prime minister is publicly committed to change. Will he follow through?
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The age of the unelected prime minister
The public didn’t vote for Andy Burnham, and they hate this way of doing politics
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The House of Lords’ cosplay democracy
It is striking how many peers tried, and failed, to enter parliament by democratic means
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Starmer has not yet proved he can solve our quicksand politics
Our political system is that we make huge mistakes, and then reverse them to make mistakes in the opposite direction
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Voting isn’t democratic. We need sortition
Randomly selecting people to rule would be a hell of a lot better than holding elections
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The right doesn’t get Banksy
The artist’s latest work delighted Elon Musk by painting the judiciary as the villain.
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Can first-past-the-post survive the multi-party age?
Parties elected with a small minority of the vote will increasingly lack democratic legitimacy.
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