Trust in politics has hit rock bottom – we hear it on the doorstep all the time. Too many people feel unheard in decisions ...

Like John Cleese towering over Ronnie Corbett in their comic portrayal of the class system, the top and bottom rungs of ...

Since the end of the Cold War, democracy has been in gradual retreat. Now, for the first time in years, more independent ...

A patchwork democracy Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, home of the Magna Carta, a centuries-old Parliament and an independent judiciary. That system is underpinned by an “unwr ...

When Britain votes on whether to withdraw from ... about a European future of diminishing social dynamism and political democracy. Britain will consciously choose between alternative national ...

the debate over the extent to which Britain is a liberal democracy has reignited, with libertarian political commentators such as Peter Hitchens criticizing the supposedly 'authoritarian' nature ...

The democracy activist has now spent four years in solitary confinement in Hong Kong for daring to criticise the Communist party. As a British citizen, he deserves more from our prime minister, who ...

“To believe in democracy is to understand that each of ... have earned size­able chunks of the vote in France, Germany, Britain and Sweden. By contrast, the traditional parties, home to the ...

Britain’s pitch notably avoids mention of thorny issues like tariffs and regulation for now. But tariffs could come to a head ...

Universal suffrage, representative government and liberal democracy as we know them today are relatively recent developments in the grand sweep of human civilization. Britain only granted universal ...

Paradoxically, Great Britain never introduced democracy to Hong Kong; the governor was appointed by London and there were no elections. But the British did set up a highly responsive, efficient ...