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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Proved right on press regulation - 18/03/2013This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published...
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
cyberspace Archive
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Proved right on press regulation
Posted on 18/03/2013 | No CommentsThis blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published its report into the standards and regulation of the press, this website observed, while the... -
Can the press be controlled?
Posted on 14/12/2012 | No CommentsThe proposals from the Leveson inquiry into the behaviour of the British press, which reported last month, include the call for a legal backstop to independent regulation. The Press Complaints Commission should be made tougher and more effective, and the courts should treat differently those... -
Can you trust this website?
Posted on 14/06/2011 | 2 CommentsAfter the excitement caused by the outing of the Syrian lesbian blogger –she was in fact a man, in Scotland! – one might ask whether any website is really what it seems. This one, for example. Is there really a long-standing British argument for the... -
Against the world
Posted on 02/06/2011 | 1 CommentManchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the most successful football manager in British history, has always cultivated a siege mentality among his players. No-one else will do us any favours: the only people we can rely on are each other. We will take on the... -
Regulation of cyberspace
Posted on 07/10/2010 | No CommentsLetter published in the Financial Times, 7 October 2010 Sir, The moment at which the western countries have the upper hand in cyberspace is exactly the moment to propose an international agreement to regulate it. Gideon Rachman is right to warn that “one day, the... -
Who should regulate the internet?
Posted on 31/07/2009 | No CommentsThe discussion about the extradition to the United States of Gary McKinnon, the alleged computer hacker, provokes an interesting question of territoriality and extra-territoriality. One of the arguments put forward in his behalf is that he should be tried in the UK, not in America.... -
The difficult case of Frederick Toben
Posted on 15/10/2008 | 3 CommentsIt is often the case that an individual case can serve as an illustration of quite a profound point, and the arrest of Dr Frederick Toben is one such. Dr Toben is an Australian citizen and was arrested at Heathrow airport earlier this month while...
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