Tag: democracy
What the complacent West must learn from Ukraine’s fight for democracy...
Twenty years ago, Bernard Trafford worked with the Council of Europe on its Education for Democracy (EDC) project designed to “prepare young people to...
Two men in a pub: but it’s not one of those...
Two old men meet in a pub, me and the Founding Father of Voice of the North, David Banks. Actually, we didn’t, because we...
Whatever happened to those sunny uplands of democracy? People fighting for...
Our bit of the world, the UK, remains beleaguered by (if now beginning to win against) the Covid pandemic: it seems nonetheless readier to...
Merely threatening to bypass Parliament on Brexit places our democracy on...
More years ago than I care to remember, I was a very young school head appointed by what seemed to me a very experienced...
Brexit debate now completely bananas
It’s not over yet: far from it. In fact we’re barely entering the final strait before the misery of the European referendum campaign, but...
Democracy, David Cameron, Project Fear and the big lie
It is no wonder that people are disillusioned with democracy. Who, faced with a straight choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, would not...
Sorry, Police Commissioner: my wife spoiled her ballot paper
An open letter to Ms Vera Baird, the newly elected Police & Crime Commissioner for Northumbria
Dear Ms Baird,
Congratulations on your re-election. My wife and I were among...
