German philosopher Jurgen Habermas once famously pronounced the European Union a force for good: A model for what he described as a “cosmopolitan world order.” The Nobel committee agreed and in 2012 awarded…
The UK general election could go either way. The one certainty is that the numbers of seats won won’t match the votes for each party.
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This week the “mother of parliaments” faces a general election in the UK. The ‘first past the post’ electoral system means we can’t predict the result with certainty, nor expect it to match the vote.
Nicola Sturgeon seems pleased with SNP policies - but do they hold up under scrutiny?
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The front pages of the Sun and the Scottish Sun on Thursday morning provided further evidence of Roy Greenslade’s recent assertion that the idea of a national press is a fallacy. In images which appear…
Good deeds don’t always work out that way.
Nailia Schwartz
Eunice Goes, Richmond American International University
There is no avoiding it – the UK’s electoral process is well past its sell-by date. In 2010 the first-past-the-post system failed to deliver a single-party majority government and it is very unlikely to…
UKIP once again bases a whole policy on EU withdrawal.
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