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A heavy head after Turkish election night
Well, I admit it, I can’t stop thinking about the latest episode of Turkish Election Night. That promising new story-line of David vs Goliath, how could anyone resist? And the plot twists! Goliath...
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Broken democracies and Latin grammar: can we blame it all on Plato?
Where did my late father get the idea that random selection could fix our broken politics? This is one of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked after working on editing Maurice Pope’s book The...
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Three Surprises at the Launch of ‘We-mind vs. Me-mind’
Perhaps because I accompanied my wife and author Jessica Lutz as she found, tested and ordered her ideas over the past seven years, I need little to convince me that her latest book contributes a...
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RIP Thomas Goltz, the journalist who knew no limits
Few reporters could match the outsize life of Thomas Goltz. He was fearless, unfailingly generous and utterly committed to getting out the news: his version of events, from right up close. He gave an...
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How the random selection of students could improve universities
Random selection popped up again in a favourite weekend read, the London Review of Books, where a reader in the 7 September 2023 edition raised a non-political application of lotteries that is dear to...
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A New Start in the New Year
A new year, a new organization, a new job! I feel very lucky and wish everyone a wonderful new start in 2024 as well. From today, I’m joining ACLED, the pre-eminent global researchers, analysts and...
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A ‘thank you’ to Iraqi Kurds in the name of foreign reporters
I’m writing with news of something I’ve helped work on for over the past 18 months with one of my heroes, American writer and ex-international correspondent Jonathan Randal. It’s called the Kurdistan...
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Writing for Policymakers
One day, a Turkish colonel bellowed at me across a hushed meeting table around which sat 43 representatives from 19 Turkish government departments: “Mr. Pope!” he roared. “Your report talks about...
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Full circle for ‘The Keys to Democracy’
“All those who would trust a Citizens’ Assembly to take decisions for them, stand up!” Half of the 50-strong audience rose to their feet in response to the question posed by Bridie Nathanson,...
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