Tuesday
Mar192019
2019-5 More 'meaningful' = less meaning.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 openDemocracy has just published our latest press release:
Vienna TEDx Talk - October 2017
Here's the YouTube, the PowerPoint, and the text of the speech (more or less).
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 Monday
Mar182019
2019-4 Today
Monday, March 18, 2019 The BBC Radio 4 Today programme, 18th, at 06.53: an interview on multi-option decision-making.
Sunday
Mar172019
Coming shortly...
Sunday, March 17, 2019 The next book - Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism - is due to be published by Springer later this year. It is based on my overland journey from Belfast to Beijing and back, Sept. 2017 to Sept '18, and it talks of how majority voting and binary majority rule have been part of the problem, pretty well everywhere: in conflict zones like Belfast and the Balkans; in 'stable democracies' like the UK, as in Brexit; in communist countries like Russia - the very word 'bolshevik' means 'member of the majority'; and even in China where Máo Zédōng was also a majoritarian: “we must win over the majority, oppose and smash the minority…”
Monday
Mar042019
2019-3 Majority voting - a sacred cow?
Monday, March 4, 2019 Phil Kearney adds this article to a debate which still hasn't started.
Thursday
Feb212019
2019-2 Brexit: if it ain't binary, don't binary vote
Thursday, February 21, 2019 Letter in today's Irish News. See 2019-1, 2018-17, etc.
Monday
Jan212019
2019-1 Brexit - the bind of binary voting
Monday, January 21, 2019 Unfortunately, all too few people question binary voting; but it's part of the problem! Political Science Association of Ireland, PSAI, has just published:
https://politicalreform.ie/2019/01/21/does-brexit-demand-non-binary-decision-making/
Monday
Dec242018
2018-18 Paddy Ashdown, 1941-2018
Monday, December 24, 2018 Paddy was probably the bravest, most committed, most linguistically gifted of all post-war UK politicians.
Here he is at our 2012 book launch in the House of Lords, (2011-9 and 2012-4), along with the late Elizabeth Meehan (2018-1) and his fellow lord, Mike Boyce. I first met Paddy back in the 70s at a Liberal Party function: we were both ex-military, both of Northern Ireland, and both of Belfast. So he took me to Yeovil, and I was highly impressed by his energetic campaigning. Our paths crossed again in Bosnia, where he was the much-loved High Representative, 2002-6. A Serbian friend of mine sat next to him, flying to London one year. "Sarajevo?" "Oh yes, I've been there," said Paddy, never one to boast. We were often in touch, so I signed my next letter to him, boastfully, Srdačan Pozdrav, (Serbo-Croat for 'yours sincerely'); to which his secretary replied, Dear Srdačan Pozdrav.
Tuesday
Nov272018
2018-17 Brexit: a binary ballot 'meaningful'?!
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 openDemocracy has just publihsed:
https://opendemocracy.net/uk/peter-emerson/for-people-to-have-their-say-on-brexit-how-best-can-multi-option-conundrum-be-resol
and see 2018-16, 2018-14, etc.
Thursday
Nov222018
2018-16 BBC Radio 4 - PM
Thursday, November 22, 2018 /Users/owner/Desktop/BrexEmer.m4a
Evan Davies gave de Borda an interview on his PM programme on Mon 12th Nov.
See also 2018-14 and 2017-5
Friday
Oct262018
2018-15, More on Brexit
Friday, October 26, 2018 Dubin City University has one article: http://dcubrexitinstitute.eu/2018/10/a-better-measure-of-the-will-of-the-people/
and Queen's University Belfast has another: http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/brexit-a-meaningful-vote/
