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general election 2010

  • 29 Aug 2010
    Churches and politics: electing to be different?

    Neither fundamentalism nor functionalism offer a way forward for the churches today in terms of their public witness and political engagement, says Simon Barrow. The different stances taken by church bodies in the 2010 general election suggest important lessons for the future.

  • 23 Jun 2010
    Coalescing or colluding?

    What kind of 'narrative' is the new post-election, post-budget coalition government trying to create, asks Simon Barrow, and what is its ratio of substance to spin, of new politics to old-fashioned collusion? Moreover, how will Labour and extra-parliamentary activists who question the underlying Westminster consensus respond?

  • 20 May 2010
    Electoral Commission wants a change in the UK voting law

    In its interim report, the Electoral Commission has suggested that the UK voting law should be changed so that anyone queuing when polls close could still vote.

  • 19 May 2010
    Coalition government and the realities of power

    As the new coalition government settles down, it is important to see past the hype and fear to the real issues of power, says Jill Segger. Asking tough questions of the powerful remains especially important in this new situation, with warning signs and signs of hope both in evidence.

  • 15 May 2010
    International observers raise questions about Westminter poll

    While politicians were negotiating after elections that gave no party an absolute majority, a team of international observers expressed surprise at the way the poll was held.

  • 13 May 2010
    We've been here before (350 years ago)

    History has great comic timing. It is 350 years this month since a major political compromise with an uncanny modern-day parallel.

  • 13 May 2010
    Saving the fire and fight for policy

    And so it begins. After weeks of election fever, the solid and well-oiled wheels of government have been set in motion: the big jobs have been meted out and the policy compromises of the coalition are being aired.

  • 12 May 2010
    Three big reasons why this isn’t ‘new politics’

    There are three very worrying features to the new LibDem-Tory coalition agreement, which raise many fundamental democratic questions:

  • 12 May 2010
    Greens attack 'fickle' Liberal Democrats

    The Liberal Democrats have been criticised by Green Party politicians and activists for the terms on which they have agreed a coalition deal with the Conservative Party.

  • 12 May 2010
    Don't keep calm. Don't carry on.

    Last week the British public did something extraordinary. With millions of different views and motivations, we managed to vote in such a way as to deliver a hung parliament, driving the first wedge in the door of a system that has for too long kept most politicians far removed from democratic accountability.