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Latest Articles in 'UK'
- 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
- 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...
- The end of the coalition - 14/05/2012The results of the voting that took place on 3 May surely spell the beginning of the end for Britain’s coalition government. (Read about the election results here.) I am...
- The case against Rupert Murdoch - 02/05/2012Passing judgement on Rupert Murdoch appears to be today’s fashion, and this blog is not one to shirk a challenge. His dislike of the EU is well-known, as are the...
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English parliament Archive
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Tuition fees row explained
Posted on 16/12/2010 | No CommentsThe proposal to increase tuition fees in England tore at the hearts of the Liberal Democrats and provided a substantial test for the coalition government. A blog post on the Liberal Vision website reports on the voting figures in the House of Commons, and makes... -
What Liberal Democrats can fight for in the coalition government
Posted on 03/09/2010 | 1 CommentBy Richard Laming Entry into the coalition government after the general election in May presents the Liberal Democrats with a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, they share and exercise political power, with five seats in the cabinet – which by most reckoning is the... -
Centralised states bad for economy
Posted on 18/05/2009 | 1 CommentIt has long been an argument of Federal Union that a federal United Kingdom would be economically more successful than the centralised version we have at the moment. During the halcyon days of the Blair/Brown bubble, people used to ask how the British could have... -
Repaying student loans
Posted on 26/02/2009 | No CommentsA news report from the BBC today reveals that growing numbers of students from other EU countries are not repaying their loans to the British Student Loans Company. (Read the report here.) What is going on? The starting point is that, under EU free movement... -
Ken Clarke’s proposals for English votes
Posted on 02/07/2008 | 2 CommentsAnother twist in the saga of how to reconcile English governance to Scottish devolution has been proposed by Tory MP Ken Clarke. The problem is that Scottish MPs can vote on English domestic policies (health, education, etc) but English MPs cannot vote on the equivalent... -
Conservative and unionist
Posted on 04/03/2007 | No CommentsMy fax machine brings me an article by Bob Walter, the Tory MP for North Dorset. He is proposing a private members bill in the House of Commons that would remove the right to vote on English-only legislation from Scottish MPs. His intention, so he... -
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.... -
Parliament for the English?
Posted on 12/11/2005 | 4 CommentsI see that Conservative leadership contender David Davis has renewed the call for only English MPs to vote on English-only matters in Parliament (reported on BBC News Online here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4424370.stm). You can understand what he is getting at: right now, Scottish MPs can vote on...
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