Ballots & Bullets

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There’s a new report out on women’s political representation today. According to yesterday’s Observer it is ‘shocking’, and shows women’s presence in a range of professions – especially politics – to be ‘plummeting’.

Based on the report, however, there was very little evidence of much plummeting going on.  Women’s presence in the professions was fairly low …

The issues raised by the exposure of phone hacking on the News of the World should not be seen as of purely parochial interest, of relevance only to the UK.

For it’s more or less received wisdom within the anti-corruption movement that, alongside an independent judiciary, the media plays a key role – perhaps even the key role – in …

During research for my (forthcoming, honest, Bloomsbury Press) book on how UK politics has been depicted on the stage, page and screen I have come across plenty of Top Ten lists compiled by bloggers like Iain Dale that rank the best television political comedies.

The popularity of these lists shows the scale of interest in the subject. But for …