Votes at 16?!
Last week, the Labour Party started proceedings to introduce votes at 16 into its next election manifesto. The government’s thinking on this issue seems to have gone something like this: the proportion of the population bothering to vote has steadily declined over the last half century, therefore if we lower the voting age, we can [...]
Zimbabwe: How serious are we?
Perusing Facebook the other day I saw I had been invited by one of my friends to join a group called the ‘Campaign for a Free Zimbabwe’. This makes a change from invites to the likes of ‘A line has been crossed when Space Raiders are no longer 10p’ and other similar entities, though [...]
