voting

I will miss my vote

6 July 2024 9:00 am

I feel as if I first took part in a general election even before I was born. My father was…

Joe Biden’s Civil War re-enactment

22 January 2022 9:00 am

We can’t blame American progressives for yearning to relive the civil rights movement. Those were heady days. Opposition to segregation…

Champagne, sex or the Tories: what could you live without?

11 September 2021 9:00 am

In idle chatter the other evening, somebody pooh-poohed champagne. He was a brave soul because in certain circles — and…

Older voters are killing British democracy

22 July 2021 7:35 am

There is an idea of the state that argues that the role of government is to act as a benevolent…

Why voters should have to show photo ID

7 July 2021 6:00 pm

This week’s publication of the Elections Bill has given pressure groups and others a fresh opportunity to complain about what…

Our confusing voting system has cost me £25

15 May 2021 9:00 am

Some 114,201 ballots were rejected in the first round of the London mayoral election, approximately 5 per cent of the…

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Exclusive poll: majority say election can be held safely in person

19 September 2020 3:35 am

A majority of voters believe that November’s election can be conducted safely in person, according to a new poll provided…

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Why I won’t vote

28 August 2020 10:09 pm

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece titled ‘The battle cry of the politically homeless’ in which I…

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Who will clean up America’s voter rolls?

12 July 2019 5:21 am

Los Angeles County has too many voters. An estimated 1.6 million, according to the latest calculations – which is roughly…

Must ‘the will of the people’ always be respected?

15 September 2018 9:00 am

I’ve always respected Alistair Darling and cannot imagine him saying anything ill-considered. But listening to him interviewed last Monday on…

Would you like to buy an American’s vote?

26 March 2016 9:00 am

Killing time in a Heathrow first-class lounge, I notice how many men adopt an unmistakable ‘first-class lounge’ persona. They stand…

In praise of the ‘Don’t know’ voter

6 June 2015 9:00 am

I am scraping the edges of my memory here, but I am fairly sure that opinion polls in my childhood…

Do Scots really die that much younger?

11 April 2015 9:00 am

The Scottish way of death Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would block a rise in the state pension age on…

Actually, Bob, they do know it’s Christmas (we checked)

22 November 2014 9:00 am

Yeah, Bob, they know The answer to the rhetorical question posed by the Band Aid single, ‘Do they know it’s…

When judges go to jail

10 May 2014 9:00 am

Judges in jail Barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe was jailed for 16 months for perverting the course of justice…