Tag: Davina Cooper
Thinking harder: how we could do referendums differently
A single vote will take us out of the EU, quite possibly without Parliament’s explicit consent. Davina Cooper asks whether a referendum based purely on individual Leave/Remain votes was the best we can do – or whether a more deliberative system, which would demand more engagement from the public, could produce a more considered outcome. Similar PostsThe case […]
There is far more to free speech than the right to be offensive
The first edition of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to be published since the attack on the magazine’s headquarters will go on sale today. Davina Cooper writes that while the attack raised fundamental questions over the nature of free speech, there was comparatively little said about the victims of the related attack on a Jewish […]
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