Explaining … the Condorcet system

I like explaining things so today I’m going to explain the Condorcet system.

If you want to skip ahead and find out how the Condorcet system works, it’s all laid out in the first three…

Explaining… the Single Transferable Vote

I like explaining things so today I’m going to explain the Single Transferable Vote.

The basic idea of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) is that each person should contribute…

Argonauts of the incredibly specific: anthropological field notes on the Liberal Democrat animal

Editor’s note: I used to have a blog, it doesn’t exist any more. It was purely for my own entertainment and so the quality was variable. But I’m told some of the…

Explaining … the French revolution

I like explaining things so today I’m going to outline the main…

Echoes of Maiden Lanes

Take it from someone who knows how to mess up a housing redevelopment, the HDV was awful

This is a piece about Haringey’s now notorious “HDV” approach to council housing. When I started it my intention…

Antonio and Jezza walk into a bar

Can Momentum transform the labour party into a social movement like Syriza or Podemos? Probably not but it can cause people to question some basic political assumptions…

The organic intellectual

The men pushing the giant egg started to grow quiet and wary; they were approaching ant country.

The egg was frail and so was the woman inside it. It occurred to her that she could probably get out of it if she wanted to, and it further occurred to her that…

Angels and Demons

A man finds out he has cancer. Depressed and feeling there is no point in watching his diet any more he goes on a massive…