Category: Democracy

In many ways, the Leader of a Kent District Council is more important than an MP. Elesewhere, coalitions of different parties work together.

Local Government elections will take place on 6 May 2021. We explain the structure of local government in Kent.

Changes in the questions that have been asked in the UK census have developed over the decades, reflecting changes in society and in social attitudes.

Have you completed your Census Form? Over the decades many have found ingenious ways of avoiding “telling their secrets”.

The Victorian Census – what did women say about their occupations?

Jackie Weaver’s now infamous Handforth Parish Council meeting, laid bare the sometimes-toxic underbelly of parochial politics.

Photographers on both sides of the Channel are being obstructed in their legitimate public interest pursuit of what is happening in and around migrant camps.

When Kent goes to the polls in the next local elections a few hundred voters could deliver a shock to the Conservative government’s Leave project.

More votes by post *really can* change the result of an election

The “Official Study Guide” to the “Life in the United Kingdom” citizenship test.