It’s been good this week to see lots of debate over how best to bring the needs of future generations into UK democracy. The discussion has been triggered by the publication of Alliance for Future Generations member Rupert Read’s new paper, Guardians of the Future: a Constitutional Case for representing and protecting Future People.

The paper has been published by the new think tank Green House as a discussion paper for the Alliance for Future Generations, which was itself launched in March 2011 (not this week, as a blog post in The Telegraph incorrectly claimed).

Rupert Read’s proposal …