From the newest addition to the Guardian's master list:
Richard Pope is an online democracy evangelist. From his flat in Electric Avenue, he contributes to several different websites aimed at making politics easily accessible to everyone, and has recently helped to set up the South London Democracy Club...
Brixton is by no means an apolitical community. Residents are highly involved in local issues. Last week, 10,000 young people voted in the Lambeth Youth Elections. Pope argues that Brixton is "innately political". "The first time I went to a police consultancy group meeting, it was buzzing with ideas and politics. People really, really care about what happens in the council.
"You can just be talking to someone round the pub and they get it; and there are real problems in South London." Somewhere along the line marked by the Iraq War and the expenses scandal, there has been a disconnect between local and national politics. Richard Pope wants to solve that problem.
Good for him. And good for the Brixton Blog.
