Urgent calls for a General Election in Bulgaria

May 1, 2013 10:52 am Leave your thoughts

On Sunday 12 May Bulgaria will hold its general election. The outcome will not only be closely awaited by the people of that country but by fellow European Union States and organisations such as Transparency International, which has been monitoring corruption in Bulgaria for over a decade, writes David Eade.

The Counter-Enlightenment

May 1, 2013 9:30 am Leave your thoughts

What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs kept, ready to send to the Sun if they step out of line? George Monbiot writes.

The strange death of the Tory north

April 28, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts

Congratulations to the Conservative Party on having delivered its South Shields leaflets in Jarrow. Everywhere beyond the Mason-Dixon Line that runs from the Bristol Channel to the Wash is now just "the North," to the Tories, isn't it? David Lindsay reports.

Voting violations in an EU member state

April 27, 2013 10:12 am Leave your thoughts

Voting violations such as ballot rigging, vote buying and control are acts we associate with the shadier, non democratic nations of the world. However such practices are alive and well right here in the EU, writes David Eade.