Assembly Project

  • Learning from women’s suffrage

    Learning from women’s suffrage

    As the philosopher Roman Krznaric put it in a recent opinion piece on how to save democracy, “The rise of citizens’ assemblies is the most significant innovation in Western democracy since women won the right to vote a century ago.” So it is worth learning from this previous innovation as to how assembly democracy can catch…

  • When Assemble disrupted the House of Lords

    I haven’t intended this as a blog for responding to recent news stories, as it’s not my strong point, but I couldn’t help notice that on Thursday, a group of protestors from Assemble disrupted the House of Lords by throwing leaflets into the chamber. They were advertising Assemble’s campaign to have the House of Lords…

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