Seeing as Gaza and matters pertaining to it is dominating both the MSM and our own ATW at the moment, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at where our political parties are officially positioning themselves via their websites. So, with all due weariness and foreboding, here we go... Conservatives Hague says Israel must stop attacking immediately, but once we have another of those wond...

Editorial: All political parties need to think much more broadly and radically if this really is going to be a green recession

Northern Ireland's Education Minister, who believes the Provisional Army Council of the IRA to be the sovereign body throughout Ireland, is continuing the work of the Peter Hain, who introduced comprehensive schools there in order to punish what he saw as the recalcitrant political parties. So several excellent grammar schools, with considerable endowments long pre-dating their incorporation into ...

As of yesterday, the UK Libertarian Party has been in existence for a year and, whilst others may criticise, we have been relatively pleased with the progress so far. Our intention was always to take things slowly and to try to ensure that we got it right first time, rather than ending up with massive splits and rows (as has happened to most other political parties) although obviously, it's far to...

So the New Year's messages have now been put out by the three main national political parties' leaders. They are easy enough to find, and there is a fair amount of dissection of them in the media, as one would expect. This comment on David Cameron's, in the Daily Mail, is probably the most interesting overall, even though it is comparatively uncritical, as in the process it leaves more scope

Several weeks ago I asked you to vote in a poll which was all about the future impact of technology on politics. Orange asked the same questions through Total Politics of every elected politician in the country. More than 2,700 of them took part. Perhaps the most interesting result from the poll was that 75 per cent said they agreed in future parties must win most of their funding through large nu...

How refreshing that five Anglican bishops have attacked the governmnent for its lack of morality. It's just a shame that it took the shit hitting the fan for them to stand up and be counted, but better late than never. The problem is that politicians now, more than ever, seem to exist merely to buy off the electorate at all costs, so few political parties have principle any more. Indeed even ...

I’m going to be doing a fair bit of link-dumping over the coming weeks, as I’m trying to write more and develop more ideas on internet campaigning. So I’m going to throw out short thoughts and ideas. This article on the Washington Post makes a point I wanted to about how political campaigning online, especially in

Ever since the end of apartheid it was clear that the ANC would win every election it contested until it split, its role in the liberation struggle determined that. But this one party dominance was always going to be a bad thing for South Africa; a fully functioning democracy requires competition between political parties—a party that knows it will win at the ballot box whatever it does beco...

David Erdos (Oxford): The Convention on Modern Liberty scheduled for next February 28  has the potential to be a defining moment for the UK.  The ad hoc team putting it together have assembled an exciting array of prominent figures allied to all the main political parties and to none.  More important, the Convention will examine many pressing issues facing us in the area of human ri...