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The lady in the lake
Posted on 03/02/2012 | No CommentsTaking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s iconic, hardbitten private detective. But amidst the glitz of Hollywood and... -
The case for global democracy
Posted on 12/12/2011 | No CommentsThe Occupy London protest (picture Richard Symonds) Based on a talk by Richard Laming at the OccupyLSX camp at St Paul’s Cathedral, 11 December 2011 Before talking about the issue of global democracy, I ought to say a few words about Federal Union and its interest... -
No globalisation without representation
Posted on 22/11/2011 | No CommentsThat the protestors outside St Paul’s cathedral are critical of global capitalism should not be surprise. Doesn’t everybody object to the way in which what was effectively gambling in unregulated markets nearly brought down the financial system and has ground economic growth to a halt?... -
The rights of citizens, the rights of nations
Posted on 02/06/2011 | No CommentsBarack Obama was widely praised for the declaration in his speech at Westminster Hall on 25 May that “we believe not simply in the rights of nations, we believe in the rights of citizens.” It sounds great, but is it really true? Here’s a test.... -
Too many vaccines
Posted on 11/04/2010 | No CommentsIt has become apparent that the British government ordered many more shots of swine flu vaccine last winter than turned out to be needed. (The Guardian reports the story here.) The excess cost is not quoted but must run into tens of millions of pounds.... -
Tuna off the menu and onto the agenda
Posted on 18/11/2009 | No CommentsEnvironmentalists are angry about the decision by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) at the weekend to reduce the allowable catch next year from 22,000 to 13,500 tonnes but not to abolish it altogether. Stocks of tuna are at dangerously low... -
Need for global rules
Posted on 04/10/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in The Daily Telegraph, 4 October 2009 SIR – Janet Daley (Comment, September 27) is correct to warn of the problems posed by global governance but is wrong to dismiss the idea out of hand. Her fear is that global governance... -
Not just who but how
Posted on 06/07/2009 | No CommentsClaire Melamed, head of policy at ActionAid, writes in the Guardian today about the G8 summit to be held in Italy this week and whether it would be better if it were the G20 represented instead. (Read the article here.) She discusses whether the G20... -
Asleep on the job
Posted on 13/05/2009 | No CommentsThis blog has commented in the past on the impact of sleep and tiredness on political decision-making, and it is interesting to see the same phenomenon arise elsewhere. The practice of the EU of taking its most important decisions at intergovernmental summits is prone to... -
The EU gets the wrong farm deal
Posted on 21/11/2008 | No CommentsEU farm ministers never tire of discussing the Common Agricultural Policy. The latest negotiations concluded in the early hours of Thursday morning, over the so-called CAP healthcheck. The aim was to revise some aspects of European agricultural policy, but without affecting its overall cost. (The...
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