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Cutting crossbench MPs’ staffing would be a setback for democracy

My experience as an adviser to Peter Andren – perhaps the first of the modern-day wave of non-party MPs to arrive in Canberra – suggests Labor’s planned cuts to the staff of independents will be a backward step for our democracy. It will also be a serious blow to the…

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2022

Westminster taking wrecking ball to idea UK is voluntary partnership – Sturgeon

On Tuesday, the First Minister will outline her plans to hold a second independence referendum.

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2022

Boris Johnson urges world leaders to hold firm on Ukraine

Longstanding backing for Kyiv ‘a price worth paying for democracy and freedom’ says prime minister at G7 summit

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022

Ireland’s Tailteann games: forgotten Gaelic ‘Olympics’ that shaped a democracy

A century ago as the country emerged from civil war, an event that rivalled the 1924 Paris Games helped establish a viable nation

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2022

Classical home listening: Roderick Williams; Mother, Sister, Daughter; and BBC concerts from Wigmore Hall

A rich democracy of talent soars on a voice and string quartet album; Mother, Sister, Daughter’s vespers from Italian convents; plus lunchtime piano recitals

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2022

It’s time to say it: the US supreme court has become an illegitimate institution

With its decision on Roe v Wade, the court has signaled its illegitimacy – and thrown the American project into question

The Guardian - US · Jun 25, 2022

Commentary: The Supreme Court upholds democracy in the Dobbs abortion decision

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the notorious 1973 decision that wrote abortion rights into law. Critics of the court’s new ruling overlook a crucial fact: By throwing out one of the most anti-democratic court decisions in the past 100 years, the justices have upheld the democratic process.

Tribune News Service · Jun 24, 2022

Sharon Grigsby: Can America rebound after this cruel and oppressive abortion ruling?

What already has been a terrible week for democracy ended in the darkest of days with the Supreme Court decision that the right to abortion, upheld for almost 50 years, no longer exists.

Tribune News Service · Jun 24, 2022

Letters to the Editor — June 25, 2022

Wounding democracy

The Hindu · Jun 24, 2022

Greens hit out at mayor's 'weak leadership' over reporter ban

Party has tabled a motion calling for reversal of move

Bristol Post · Jun 24, 2022