By Ivor Cornish

Is AV too little and far too late? Our Kingdom has been debating in great detail the various pros, cons and mathematics of numerous voting systems, House of Lords reforms, the West Lothian question, Welsh, Cornish, and Scottish independence, written constitutions and home rule for the English. But what will any of this add up to, especially for the English, if Cameron has his way?

By Rima Saini

In light of Prince William's marriage to the commoner of the hour, Catherine Middleton, a 'comment is free' article from the Guardian last weekend discussed the issue of social mobility in reference to scholar, freedom fighter and father of the Indian constitution, B. R. Ambedkar. Born into a poor, untouchable family, his appeal to equality as the cornerstone of political democracy is indeed as relevant to our time and place as much as it was to his. Relevant, most certainly, to the current debate pitting our first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system against the Alternative Vote (AV).

The dramatic events of May 2, enacted in Pakistan’s small, sleepy town of Abbottabad have surely shaken the world. The global icon of al Qaeda — Osama bin Laden — has been ‘eliminated’ through a well-executed, covert operation.

By Syed Faraz Ali

While the death of Osama bin Laden has been a reason to celebrate for many across the globe, ordinary Pakistanis try to make sense of it all as Pakistan becomes the focus of international speculation and increased threat. A student from Karachi shares his reaction with The Samosa to news that the world’s most wanted man was taking sanctuary on home soil.