A list of some of the best posts from Amused Cynicism.

Electoral reform

• FPTP is dead; it needs to be buried — as fewer people support the two big parties, FPTP will become less viable
• How to get PR? — how the small parties could get together and abolish FPTP

The dumbing-down of science education

• GCSEs are dumbed down, and getting worse
• How to get people to study science
• Get a degree in teaching creationism
• GCSE biology is dumbed down
• Do you see with your eyes, ears, nose or mouth? — an actual question in a CGSE biology exam
• Regulator admits science GCSEs are dumbed down

Digital rights

• A broadband tax for the UK? — how a broadband tax could fund creative works
• Using computers to promote freedom — proposes that all computers should come, out-of-the-box with hardware and software that promotes digital freedom

Economics

• Microbusinesses: Reforming the benefit system and Organization Theory
• Housing policy — the structural reasons why housing policy in the UK is bad

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The Green Party’s science policy — discusses the GPEW’s policies on science and technology, which have significant flaws

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