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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:...
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- 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...
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- The Speech - 23/01/2013So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.)...
death penalty Archive
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Glad to be out of sync
Posted on 05/08/2011 | No CommentsThe comments posted on Twitter by death penalty campaigner Paul Staines are revealing. He said that: “restoring the death penalty has profoundly eurosceptic implications.” And furthermore that: “US, India, China and Japan all have the death penalty on statute books. We’re out of sync with... -
The EU and the death penalty
Posted on 04/08/2011 | 1 CommentAt the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, was not abolishing the death penalty but in fact bringing it back. ... -
Self-control
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsGiven that the death penalty had already effectively been abolished in the UK decades previously (in 1969 in Great Britain and in 1973 in Northern Ireland), it was uncontroversial in politics to sign the two protocols of the European Convention of Human Rights that prohibit... -
Why bring back the death penalty
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsThe coalition government’s latest experiment in direct democracy is a website where people can post epetitions. If a petition gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be eligible for debate in the House of Commons. The epetitions website is here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/index.html. One of the first...
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