In coining the term “securonomics” for her economic vision for Britain, chancellor Rachel Reeves joins a long—and curiously American—tradition, writes lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie. https://lnkd.in/gpJpeMJn
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Rachel Reeves criticised over ‘Thatcher’s decade of renewal’ comments – UK politics live: Momentum say trailed comments by the shadow chancellor show party’s leadership are ‘out of touch with Labour values’ Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP and former business secretary, has described as “barmy” a ruling from Ofcom saying that GB News broke impartiality rules because it allowed him to present news during his show on the channel. Ofcom said GB News had broken these rules on five occasions – two relating to programmes presented by Rees-Mogg, and three relating to programmes presented by Esther McVey, the Cabinet Office minister, and her husband, the Tory MP Philip Davies. This strikes me as completely barmy that reporting, in a programme that lasts for an hour, an event that has happened, where somebody has been stabbed, where does due impartiality come into somebody’s being stabbed? I just think this is a really eccentric judgment on that particular issue. It’s just a strange thing to say that there’s a question of impartiality on a stabbing. Stabbing people is wrong. We recognise the factual nature of the content delivered by Jacob ReesMogg, which did not include any partial comment on, or discussion of, the wider issues involved. However, as set out above, there are additional protections afforded to news because of its fundamental importance in a democratic society. Yes I saw that and I didn’t think that that was appropriate. Well, I think in describing objects, in museums and galleries, I think the creator has an important role to look at history to make sure that their objects are understood. But these are matters for those individual institutions. Punch and Judy is seen as traditionally British, but it evolved from the 16th-century Italian street performance commedia dell’arte. Although aimed at a family audience, the original narrative in its Victoria heyday featured domestic violence, hangings and racist caricatures – a jarring and inacceptable combination for modern audiences. Continue reading... #Politics #UKnews #Conservatives #Labour #RachelReeves
Rachel Reeves says Labour wants ‘inclusive’ version of ‘decade of renewal’ that followed Thatcher’s election in 1979 – UK politics live
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Founder of Gambit governmental advisory, of Government Tomorrow Forum, and esports enthusiast. MA in International Affairs
What is the government's real purpose? A question as deep as the big societal debate itself. The simplistic answers from conservative and liberal camps (from "protect and provide law and order for the market to function" to "achieve equal opportunity for all") are not good enough for responsible actors — they are good for labelling and grouping people and opinions, but not for advancing the society forward. So, what government is there FOR? Any government — in China, North Korea, USA or France, what do they all have in common? Independently from any political and social composition, the state of institutions, and trust of the citizens, what does EACH government have as a purpose? My answer is — to provide what I call "structured certainty." What does it mean? That government must ensure that on any level of the society it manages, every citizen and institution can be certain about the consequences of their actions. An artist must be sure that he will be able to create, a businessman must have no doubt about the elements of commercial relations, and everyone must be convinced that no black swan can systemically disrupt their everyday life. The structure part guarantees that you can focus on an activity of your choice and someone inside the society will be there to provide you with food, warmth, medical treatment, etc. It means that your choice of activity in life will be respected, as long as you assume the clearly stated consequences — which goes for both a construction worker and a criminal. Indeed, the certainty means that a given set of actions, however far stretched across space and time, will bring a given set of consequences. Its details may vary, but its essence will strategically stay the same. The usual "law and order" concept is a form of unstructured certainty: they may change, abused, and evolve into a variety of bad forms. Today's Russia is an extraordinary example of a bad government: it has neither structure (as the social relations and responsibilities change all the time, and most Russians can not choose their occupation freely, needing to personally attain to their most basic elements such as food), nor certainty (because laws, rules, and their applications change so often it is impossible to forecast consequences for the same action across even a couple of years). At Government Tomorrow Forum we will try to help governments become better at building structured certainty — this is the best way to make society progress.
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🚨 Breaking News: The U.S. Constitution needs a reboot! 🇺🇸🔄 Is it time to reimagine American democracy for the 21st century? In our latest post for #unify , my colleagues and I propose a bold idea: using the principles of participation, deliberation, and citizens' assemblies to hold a National People's Convention to rewrite the Constitution! 🖋️📜 Key points: • 🏛️ Our current system is creaking under modern pressures • 🎩 The Founders went rogue to create the Constitution • 💡 We can do the same to upgrade our democracy! • 🗳️Imagine thousands drafting, millions voting on a new framework It's bold, it's daring, but isn't that what America is all about? 🔗 Dive into the full article here 👉 : https://lnkd.in/ey8dPZ9R Let's start a revolution...of ideas! 💥🧠🗽 #DeliberativeDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies #DemocracyInnovation #WeThePeople #AmericanRenewal
The Case for a National People’s Convention
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Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gP9SEfgH There is an unexamined paradox in the history of government in the West. The so-called absolutist monarchs of Europe overwhelmingly chartered republican corporations—e.g., towns, universities, and guilds whose members elected their leaders. Indeed, modern constitutional democracy is patterned after them.Yet, modern democracies themselves have overwhelmingly chartered authoritarian corporations—e.g., universities and business corporations whose subjects have no vote. After this Great Inversion, corporations, which once distributed power and wealth, now concentrate them, straining constitutional democracy. Against this backdrop, this article analyzes the major types of relation maintained between states and corporations: constitutive (states charter corporations), mimetic (states and corporations recurrently copy one another’s organizational features), and instrumental (each leans on the other, and sometimes captures it, to better advance its own purposes). The article then examines the special challenges that corporate economies pose to constitutional democracy and considers whether a partial reversal of the Great Inversion could reduce them.
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Ever wondered what the Brexit issue is about? The issues of sovereignty for Britain, and member states of the EU? How do the Europeans maintain their identity within the EU whilst the Brits levitate in sewage water and cross-border brouhaha's? What does the EU mean ito the regulation of nasties in the food chain and our digital lives? Immigration? What [were] the implications to rising and rampant inequality within and outside the UK? The brain drain and net new demographics? The impact on the NHS? Is the EU a good thing? Do nations win or ‘lose’ control when joining the EU? Where does control actually sit? How has the ‘take back control’ been going for the UK? Here’s a jolly little explainer in the rich, deep, velvety tones of Stephen Fry. Additional reading: CHUMS: How a tiny caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, Simon Kuper. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF 2023 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top. 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s' James O'Brien 'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' Matthew Parris 'A sparkling firework of a book' Lynn Barber, Spectator 'Exquisite and depressing in equal measure' Matthew Syed, Sunday Financial Times
Brexit: Endgame - The $20T Secret, with Stephen Fry.
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From Adam Tooze: “A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the current climate crisis. Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy when the future seems no longer open? In this eye-opening history of ideas, Jonathan White investigates how politics has long been directed by shifting visions of the future, from the birth of ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and the excesses of the neoliberal age. As an inescapable sense of disaster defines our politics, White argues that a political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy. Wide in scope and sharply observed, In the Long Run is a history of the future that urges us to make tomorrow new again.”
In the Long Run - Profile Books
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it was a privilege to review 4 excellent books on civil wars and their legacies in Latin America by Rachel Schwartz, Sarah Zukerman Daly, Rachel Schmidt, and Roxani Krystalli for Latin American Politics & Society: shorturl.at/xQSUW Each contributes to our understanding of institutions, democracy, and justice following civil wars through careful fieldwork and creative theorizing. They also focus on the national level of analysis, even while drawing on subnational variation. In the essay, i extend the implications of these works by moving up another level of analysis, and argue that a transnational factor conditions civil wars' legacies in the region: the war on drugs and associated prohibitions. The transnational war on drugs acts as a constraint on state capacity in the region; calls into question what "post-war" even means; challenges expectations for democracy and civilian autonomy; and shows that justice demands accountability from consumer states. Moving between subnational and national levels of analysis has led to key advances in comparative politics, & these books integrate both to uncover new insights. The transnational level reveals the political possibilities and limitations that stem from these insights.
Civil War Legacies, The Prohibition of The Drug Trade, and Armed Politics in Latin America | Latin American Politics and Society | Cambridge Core
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An interesting analysis of the realignment of taking place in the political landscape. “Neopopulism” as a “new centrism” that “is not always so moderate”. What are your thoughts?
A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
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In facing America's crisis of civic virtue, I argue that the real issue lies not in capitalism or democracy, but in our collective commitment to honesty, civility, and shared moral norms. It's time to rejuvenate our public virtue. Read the full article in the Journal of Democracy's April issue. Free to read until April 30. https://lnkd.in/gSdFgcCG
Journal of Democracy
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