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- The House of Lords is a mess - 01/05/2012The House of Lords is a mess. It brings together in one place party political nominees (often former MPs), acknowledged experts on particular issues, descendants of drinking buddies of long-deceased...
- The uncertain boundary between politics and law - 24/11/2011Here is an interesting examination of the interaction between politics and law in the British political system, delivered by leading barrister (and future judge) Jonathan Sumption QC. Delivered as the...
- The report on funding for political parties published today outlines some interesting ideas for reforming the way that politics works in the United Kingdom, improving it in some ways but...
Latest Blog Entries
- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
- Authentic euroscepticism - 20/05/2012A very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph last Friday by Jeremy Warner (read it here) sums up the eurosceptic dilemma and reveals the perverse nature of the way they...
- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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Farewell, Sir Ian Blair
Posted on 03/10/2008 | 1 CommentThe head of the Metropolitan Police has resigned, and the government is in uproar. Formerly, the appointment as Metropolitan Police Commissioner was in the hands of the Home Secretary, but since the creation of London regional government, the Mayor of London has taken over as... -
On your bike
Posted on 14/08/2008 | 1 CommentA recent report by Policy Exchange attracted all kinds of the wrong headlines because it suggested that cities in the north of England might continue to decline, while cities in the south might continue to grow. This raised all sorts of northern hackles, with John... -
A definition of local politics
Posted on 11/07/2008 | No CommentsAn elegant definition of local politics in an article by P J O’Rourke in the Weekly Standard: Governor Sununu explained the importance of the “short control loop.” Your shower faucets are a short control loop. You turn on the cold faucet, the shower is cold.... -
An English Grand Committee won’t work
Posted on 02/11/2007 | 8 CommentsIn a further development of the Conservative idea of English votes for English laws idea, Tory MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind is now toying with the notion of an English Grand Committee in the House of Commons. This would bring together the MPs representing English constituencies... -
Representing Scotland
Posted on 22/01/2007 | 1 CommentA marvellous report on the BBC today that the Scottish Executive is being sidelined in the making of UK policy at European level. (Read the report here.) Of course, such an assessment – which originated in the Brussels office of the Scottish Executive itself –... -
Balance and Gordon Brown
Posted on 21/06/2006 | 1 CommentAs Gordon Brown gets closer to becoming prime minister and accordingly tries to accentuate his Englishness, his opponents are trying to raise the barrier of his being Scottish. The latest salvo comes in a report from the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee, reported here.... -
Connected
Posted on 22/05/2006 | No CommentsOne of the basic laws of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else. The same is true in federalism. I was prompted to write this by a news report today that Jack McConnell, First Minister in Scotland, had been invited by Northern Ireland... -
Federalism in 2003 – a review
Posted on 30/12/2003 | No CommentsBritish politics has gone through some severe shocks in the past 12 months, faced with constitutional upheavals at home and abroad. As 2004 opens, we look at what effect those changes will have on the future of some key federalist issues. Reform in the UK... -
The future’s federal
Posted on 06/03/2003 | No CommentsBy Brendan Donnelly At the end of last year, I was offered the post of Director of the Federal Trust, an offer I immediately accepted. Most of my friends were quick to offer their congratulations. Some were less enthusiastic. “Federalism,” they argued, was a concept... -
London should run its own transport system
Posted on 13/08/2001 | No CommentsIn a democracy, you need a very good reason to deny people something they have voted for. The Labour government has yet to come up with that good reason regarding the tube. For the result of the London-wide election could not have been clearer. The...
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