Book review: The Life and Death of Democracy

Non-fiction: A general history of democracy by John Keane which set out to "democratise the history of democracy"

The lunatics are taking over the asylum

The British people are rejecting the elites and no longer have faith in expert opinion. Can they do any better?

Dan Hannan states into the future...

...and finds himself standing shoulder to shoulder with a Europhile French intellectual

Zuma: what they say about the president-in-waiting

The result of Wednesday’s election is a foregone conclusion. Whether South Africa will be better off is not

Tony McNulty’s expenses scam is nothing new

Will Self on Tony McNulty and Jacqui Smith, the Westminster kidults with nothing to say for themselves

Force convicts to vote as a form of rehabilitation

It's amusing to see idiots who don't vote in outrage that convicts ought to be enfranchised

America votes

After the longest election campaign in American history, voters are turning out in record numbers