Direct Democracy Editorials
05 Jul 2007
Our response on constitutional reform;
The problems with Brown's Budget;
A Lib Dem-Tory alliance on localism?;
Our New Year's resolutions;
Reasons to back the Sustainable Communities Bill;
A very undemocratic Queen's Speech. [more]Guest Comment by Saira Khan
09 Apr 2007
Why Britain needs citizens' initiatives [more] Guest Comment by Daniel Hannan MEP
08 Mar 2007
The end of the (appointed) peers show. [more] Guest Comment by John Penrose MP
08 Mar 2007
It's time to localise the Lords. [more] Guest Comment by Patrick Barbour
29 Feb 2007
How to create a 21st-century system of government. [more] Guest Comment by Syed Kamall MEP
03 Jul 2008
Localist Planning
The EU trade system needs a measure of direct democracy. [more] Guest Comment by Jim Allister QC MEP
28 Jan 2007
Why the Belfast Agreement means perpetual all-party government. [more] Guest Comment by David Gauke MP
15 Jan 2007
The quango which decides who gets into schools;
Why we need a democratic trade policy. [more] Guest Comment by Greg Clark MP
11 Dec 2006
How localism can help the most deprived parts of our community. [more] Guest Comment by Brian Monteith MSP
16 Oct 2006
Why the Conservative Party must give its Scottish branch independence. [more] Guest Comment by John Redwood MP
21 Sep 2006
How to get people interested in politics again. [more] Guest Comment by Nick Herbert MP
11 Sep 2006
It's time to give communities control over their police. [more] Guest Comment by Owen Paterson MP
05 Sep 2006
The lunacy of John Prescott's Standards Board for local government. [more] Guest Comment by Lee Rotherham
26 Aug 2006
Vote for me for Mayor of London - I'll abolish the job. [more] Guest Comment by Hamish Marshall
23 Aug 2006
How localism won us the Canadian elections. [more] The Tory Collapse
05 Jun 2006
The 2005 General Election was the worst possible result: no real advance, but just enough new MPs to create the illusion of progress. Alongside the new leadership of David Cameron, the Conservatives need a thorough renovation of their policies and attitudes. [more] Why No One Believes Politicians
05 Jun 2006
It is not just the French and the Dutch who are in a strop with their leaders, as proved by the recent furore over John Prescott's recent croquet game. Anyone who has knocked on doors at elections recently - and we knocked on many thousand - will confirm that the British too are in revolt against their political class. [more] Localism
05 Jun 2006
Britain is the most centralised country in the Western world. Of the money spent by our local councils, 75 per cent comes from the Treasury. [more] Health and Education
05 Jun 2006
For as long as anyone can remember the Left has dominated the moral high ground in the debate on health and education. Now, with the Tories regaining the confidence of the public to an unprecedented extent, it is time to knock them off it. [more] The Politics of Crime
05 Jun 2006
Crime in Britain has risen remorselessly since the 1950s - to the point where we now have the second highest crime rate in Western Europe. [more] Constitutional Reform and Local Government
05 Jun 2006
Britain is governed by judges, by officials and by Eurocrats. Powers have passed from local councils to Whitehall and from Westminster to Brussels. At every level, elected representatives have lost ground to bureaucrats.
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