I’m treating this as a living document, which will be subject to additions and amendments, but I wanted to make a start at least, following several earlier aborted attempts. Following the vote on Scottish independence, it seems appropriate to start sketching out my own thoughts on the future of the…
September 2014
I had a new experience today. Our home phone line and broadband connection was ‘telephone slammed’. ‘Telephone slamming’, as I am now aware, is when a phone service and/or broadband provider takes over your service without your knowledge and with seemingly little in the way of security measures to make…
This blog entry is based on a comment I wrote in response to an article at http://nationalinterest.org/feature/switzerland-the-ultimate-democracy-11219, which, whilst highlighting the pros of Direct Democracy, makes reference to the ‘tyranny of the majority’. This is my response… This concept of the ‘tyranny of the majority’ always fascinates me, or more…