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UK and EU both need major democratic reform to survive Brexit fallout
Crick Centre Deputy Director Dr Matt Wood calls for democratic reform in both Britain and the EU to prevent the tensions that have emerged following the EU referendum becoming more protracted or even...
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Lessons from Ottawa…
… What the restoration of Canada’s Parliament Hill tells us about building democracy The Crick Centre has launched a major research and public engagement project exploring the planned restoration and...
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The Return of Political Nihilism?
Crick Centre Associate Director Hendrik Wagenaar warns of a growth in “political nihilism” following the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU on 23 June. Here are three, seemingly unrelated, news...
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Thinking inside the box
The Crick Centre has launched a major research and public engagement project exploring the planned restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: Designing for Democracy. In the latest in our...
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Designing a new parliament with women in mind
The Crick Centre has launched a major research and public engagement project exploring the planned restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: Designing for Democracy. In the latest in our...
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The politics of optimism: Brexit, crises and new beginnings
Professor Matthew Flinders advocates implementing a politics of optimism to counter post-Brexit despair. Democratic politics is rarely seen in a positive light. Politicians are scoundrels, cads and...
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What if…
The Crick Centre has launched a major research and public engagement project exploring the planned restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: Designing for Democracy. In the latest in our...
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Lessons from New Delhi
The Crick Centre has launched a major research and public engagement project exploring the planned restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: Designing for Democracy. In the latest in our...
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A Talent for Politics? Academics, Failure and Emotion
Matthew Flinders asks why successful political theorists rarely make good politicians, and questions the role of academics in the EU referendum. Sometimes a fragment of a book manages to lodge itself...
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Aristotle and the Palace of Westminster
The Crick Centre has launched a major research and public engagement project exploring the planned restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: Designing for Democracy. In the latest in our...
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Muddling Through (Again): The Future of English Regional Government
Professor Lord Blunkett and Professor Matt Flinders discuss developments in the Government’s devolution agenda and flag up the core weakness at the heart of the policy. What’s really happening to...
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The Body Politic: Art, Pain, Putin
Professor Matt Flinders, Director of the Crick Centre, explores how the body can be used for political art. The phrase ‘scrotum artist’ was never going to be easy to ignore when it appeared in a...
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Saving Westminster and rebuilding British democracy
Matthew Flinders, Director of the Crick Centre and our Designing for Democracy research and public engagement project, calls on MPs and Peers to seize the opportunity of rebuilding Westminster to boost...
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Civic initiatives as democratic innovations….
…and their interplay with traditional institutions of policy and politics. Dr Ingmar van Meerkerk, a Visiting Fellow at the Crick Centre, discusses the impact new civic initiatives, such as social...
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“I would say: for heaven’s sake man, go!” – Corbyn and PMQs
(David Cameron to Jeremy Corbyn, PMQs, 29 June, 2016) How has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Minister’s Question Time? Professor Ralph Negrine and Dr Peter Bull analyse his first 12 months of PMQs as...
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Jeremy Corbyn and personality politics
Crick Centre Research Associate James Weinberg discusses Jeremy Corbyn, the media, and public trust in politicians. Talking to BBC Radio 4 at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool this morning...
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Progressives should accept Corbyn’s triumph – it’s the price of democracy
Crick Centre Deputy Director Dr Matt Wood explores what Corbyn’s re-election means for democracy in the Labour Party and for social democracy across Europe. The political theorist Jacques Rancière once...
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Three things that must happen for devolution to be a success
In a blog originally posted in January 2016, Rachel Laurence, Senior Co-ordinator, New Economy in Practice, at the New Economics Foundation, sets out the key findings from the NEF’s report on...
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Digital democracy and opportunities for a 21st century Parliament
Designing for Democracy is the Crick Centre’s major research and public engagement project, exploring the planned restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster. In this blog, the latest in our...
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What Future for Party Politics?
Dr Kate Dommett, Deputy Director of the Crick Centre introduces her new ESRC Future Leaders project It has been quite a turbulent few years for political parties in Britain. The 2015 General Election...
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