My three-step guide to how we can improve democracy →
“We are living in turbulent times. Across the world, countries which consider themselves democratic are seeing their political institutions shaken and under threat. From Europe to the US, South America to India, democracy itself looks to be in trouble. In fact, it is under constant attack from all quarters – whether by a biased or negligent media, unchallenged far-right figures, sinister foreign powers seeking to sow chaos or in the case of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister’s office itself.
It is a time when democrats of all colours must unite to fight the repressive forces threatening to destroy our hard-won freedoms, and the notion that a country’s future should be decided by its own people; that power should be shared by all, and exercised with accountability in the interests of all, not concentrated in the hands of a select few…”