Category Archives: Democracy

Bridget the Moral Midget

Posted on November 3, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

(With apologies to Ray Stevens) Well, come on, everybody, have you heard the news? Women & Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson is in town, and – having already lost the Labour Party deputy leadership election – she’s now lost her moral … Continue reading →

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Difficult transition: Jolyon Maugham KC’s identity crisis

Posted on May 6, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

As noted on this blog last month, it was always going to be fun watching Jolyon Maugham KC and his Good Law Project try to re-invent themselves, following the demise on 4 July last year of the Tory cash cow … Continue reading →

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Good Law Project: One foot in the grave

Posted on January 30, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

So, tomorrow, Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project will stagger to the end of their 2024-25 reporting year (1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025). As documented on this blog in December, it’s been a miserable … Continue reading →

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Assisted dying: Labour’s self-administered lethal cocktail

Posted on December 2, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

So, on Friday, 236 Labour MPs voted for Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting, Shabana Mahmood and the rest of the Labour Government to assume responsibility for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, and for the increasingly bitter Red-on-Red warfare of the last … Continue reading →

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Assisted dying Bill: a ‘how to vote’ guide for Labour MPs

Posted on November 27, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

Are you a Labour MP? Maybe newly-elected on 4 July, or otherwise unfamiliar with the deeply defective and anachronistic Private Members’ Bill process? Still undecided how to vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill on Friday? Well, fret no more! … Continue reading →

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Assisted dying: Kim gets Keir off the hook, but at what price?

Posted on October 17, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

So, Keir Starmer had himself filmed making a personal promise to TV celebrity Esther Rantzen – Democracy 2024, innit – and now backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, having had her numbered wooden ball pulled out of a glass bowl at … Continue reading →

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Jilted Jolyon seeks to reform Reform

Posted on October 11, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

So, three months on from the General Election of 4 July, Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project have finally launched their first crowdfunded legal challenge of the Starmer era. It’s been a torrid three months for … Continue reading →

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Good Law Project: data tools

Posted on July 19, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

As previously documented on this blog, on 5 June, Jolyon Maugham and his (Not Very) Good Law Project launched an online tool to “defend democracy from data dark arts”, by enabling supporters to send a data Subject Access Request (SAR), … Continue reading →

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Covid corruption: Will Labour break Jolyon’s heart?

Posted on June 28, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

Though less well known for romancing women than blocking them on X/Twitter, in recent months Jolyon Maugham, founder and Director of the (Not Very) Good Law Project, has developed a bit of a pash for Labour’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves. … Continue reading →

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Jolyon, stop targeting me!

Posted on June 5, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

In recent weeks, Dr Jolyon ‘I used to be a KC’ Maugham FRCPCH has been following up his one-man boycott of Gail’s bakeries with a barrage of data subject access requests to the Conservative Party and what he calls “their … Continue reading →

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