When you grow up in Flint, you learn early that the people in charge always have a different set of rules for themselves than they do for the people they claim to represent.
By Maya Ellison ·
There is a particular kind of noise that accompanies a political movement when it begins to eat its own tail.
By Caroline Ashford ·
When the powerful want to signal a "new era," they don't look to the people; they look to the archives.
By Maya Ellison ·
You watch these things—these self-inflicted spectacles in Clacton—and you realize that politics has become less about governance and more about performance art. It is exhausting, really.
By Alma Cordero ·
The whole circus—the 34 candidates, the record number of hopefuls that pollcheck.co.uk noted, the sheer spectacle of it all—is nothing but noise.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
It takes a certain kind of desperate genius—the sort that mistakes noise for momentum—to stage an election designed purely as a sideshow.
By Caroline Ashford ·
When you spend your life pointing fingers at the system—at the "establishment," as Nigel Farage so eloquently puts it—you build a brand.
By Josie Calloway ·
The Greater Manchester mayoral by-election was supposed to be a moment of regional reckoning—a chance for the city region to assert its democratic will after years of navigating…
By Aoife Gallagher ·