{"id":882251,"date":"2026-01-01T02:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/the-quiet-crisis-at-the-heart-of-british-democracy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:21:37","slug":"the-quiet-crisis-at-the-heart-of-british-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/the-quiet-crisis-at-the-heart-of-british-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The quiet crisis at the heart of British democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our politics have changed, but our voting system remains the same \u2013 and it\u2019s holding us back&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/uk-needs-proportional-representation-broken-democracy-electoral-system\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Emma Harrison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our politics have changed, but our voting system remains the same \u2013 and it\u2019s holding us back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3824,2874,192],"tags":[6779,14982],"class_list":{"0":"post-882251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crisis","8":"category-quiet","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-quiet"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}