Tag: politics
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Thick Citizenship
Modern liberal democracies tend to treat citizenship as a thin, mostly administrative status — a passport, a legal identity, and a bundle of rights that can often be acquired with minimal integration. In my Civic Republicanism, citizenship is something deeper. It is a reciprocal civic relationship that unites political membership, social solidarity, and shared responsibility.…
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A British Civic Republicanism – what would it look like?
Preamble I often write about Civic Republicanism in abstract terms — subsidiarity, competence, non‑domination, polycentric authority, civic guardianship — but abstractions can only take a reader so far. At some point, the most effective way to explain a constitutional philosophy is simply to illustrate the kind of institutional order it would produce. The constitutional framework…
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Introducing Civic Forum: A New Home for My Political Writing
For some time, my political reflections have lived under the heading Politics of Scale. It was a useful phrase, capturing my belief that political life only makes sense when it is rooted in the appropriate level of community, authority, and responsibility. But as my thinking has developed, and as I’ve clarified the tradition I stand…
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Introducing the Cybernetic Mosaic: A Political Futurist Thought‑Experiment
In an age when political imagination feels exhausted, the Politics of Scale demands that we think again about how human beings organise themselves. The old binaries — centralisation versus localism, globalism versus nationalism, technocracy versus democracy — no longer map cleanly onto the world we actually inhabit. What we need is a political architecture capable…
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The Shape of a People’s Care
How spiritual inheritance shapes a politics rooted in place, responsibility, and the common good My spirituality and my politics rise from the same ground. Both begin with the sense that we are born into a story older than ourselves — a civilisation shaped by hands now gone, a landscape tended by generations whose names we…
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