“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” -Haruki Murakami Nearly every government, from tiny Tuvalu, all the way up to India, has a public sphere. That is, a community of some kind, “made up of private people gathered together as a public…
On the 24th of February last year, Russia relaunched its invasion of Ukraine (which originally started on the 20th of February 2014), and apart from a parody of Putin’s irredentist essay, I haven’t done much to make fun of Putin. So let’s look at some of the worst-aged quotes to recently turn a year old….
Yesterday Queen Elizabeth the Second died. She wasn’t Australia’s second Queen named Elizabeth, since the other Elizabeth reigned before Australia was ‘discovered’. Despite the fact that we have had no other Elizabeth’s we call her the second because the monarchy is an embarrassing relic of British rule. In this article I’ll be laying out why…
The French system of allocation of power is pretty strange: despite the very first article of its constitution stipulating that “Its organisation is decentralised.”, France is one of the least decentralised countries in the democratic world, even for a unitary state. The current political establishment was set up in the middle of the Algerian War…
I’ve already talked about why democracy works, and its flaws, but I’ve hardly addressed the potential to improve democracy further. In this article I’ll be doing just that! Citizen Journalism: As I talked about in the previous article, the press is extremely important in upholding democracy. While the internet’s contributions to this are often overlooked…
