2026-12 The Press is Free... to ignore!
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Deborda

On 3rd June, the Community Relations Council published: https://www.community-relations.org.uk/news-centre/free-press

Binary voting, some 2,500 years old, is primitive, divisive and often hopelessly inaccurate.  Everything else these days is modern, but not our decision-making.  Pluralism is possible, however, and instead of reducing debates to short lists of only two options, decisions in our multi-party chambers should best be taken in multi-option, preferential ballots on (short) lists of up to six options.

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