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This is a follow-up post to my recent one on the House of the People project, a national citizens’ assembly run by Assemble. From what I’ve heard, it went very well, with a facilitator I’m in touch with saying it was “a truly uplifting experience”. Assemble issued a press release in which a participant described…
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An earlier event from Assemble last August, which launched the work to run the House of the People. This month’s event is at a different venue but will look quite similar. Why rely on the government to start national citizens’ assemblies if you can start your own? This is a huge task. But after over…
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A small but growing movement is calling to revitalise democracy with assemblies of ordinary people, which could be springboards for campaigns and perhaps election candidates too. That might just be happening now in Serbia. Crowds in Belgrade last December Serbia is the largest of seven present-day states that were part of Yugoslavia in the 20th…
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The British Parliament is sometimes called the “Mother of Parliaments” but perhaps a better analogy is an elderly granny. That’s certainly the impression you get from Ian Dunt’s 2023 book How Westminster Works… and Why It Doesn’t, with the emphasis decidedly on the latter. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to get close…
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Something odd happened in the 2010s. As the journalist Vincent Bevins puts it: From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. I was one of them. I marched in November 2010 against the British government’s plans to treble the tuition fees for universities. It didn’t…
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