Showing posts with label apathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apathy. Show all posts
Friday, 14 February 2014

On by-elections...

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**** His Grace asks us to : Consider the turnout - 28%. So taking his exhortation I shall do just this - try to understand why nearly...
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Saturday, 17 November 2012

Apathy, elitism and bureaucracy - an ancient problem

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy . So it’s that apathy thing again. You know...
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Saturday, 7 July 2012

The Guardian don't seem to know the meaning of democracy...

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**** The Guardian is once again burbling about democracy, this time on the back of a report by some people called Democratic Audit. M...
Friday, 30 December 2011

Ah, that apathy thing again...

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**** Excitement at the discovery that more English 18 year olds are on Facebook than registered to vote. Officials expressed concern ye...
Friday, 20 May 2011

A comment on Spanish local elections and British apathy!

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There are local elections in Spain this weekend - elections which are likely to see a thorough trouncing for the ruling Socialist Party: ...
Friday, 5 February 2010

Welcome to the Slowburn Revolution

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I am convinced of the need for Britain’s (in fact Europe’s) polity to change radically. Not for some kind of Blairite “constitutional refo...
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Friday, 13 November 2009

Glasgow North East: 29,639 majority for don't care, can't be bothered, angry, annoyed or drunk!

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Over two thirds of the voters in Glasgow North East didn't vote in yesterday's "crucial" by-election. So if you walk out ...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

In praise of idiots

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The ancient Greeks used their word for ‘private’ as a derogatory term for someone who took no part in “public affairs”. That word ἴδιος ( i...
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