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English regional government Archive
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Who can create jobs?
Posted on 30/06/2011 | No CommentsAn interesting article by Coca-Cola chief executive Muhtar Kent and business academic Ram Charan, “Give the states the power to build jobs”, carried by the Reuters website argues that, in America, the emphasis on job creation should come from the states and not the federal... -
Regional assemblies are a hard sell
Posted on 20/08/2009 | 7 CommentsThe dog days of summer lend themselves to the more minor issues of political campaigning. Across the country, Conservative MPs and PPCs are trying to pick a fight over elected regional assemblies, claiming that Labour intends to reintroduce the plans that were dropped after the... -
The fate of declining communities
Posted on 03/07/2009 | No CommentsJonathan Guthrie writes in the Financial Times about the problems faced by towns and cities once the economic reason for their prosperity goes into decline. Cities in the north of England, for example, once were ideal locations for heavy manufacturing industry but have now lost... -
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... -
Regionalisation by stealth?
Posted on 10/09/2008 | 2 CommentsOne of the joys of writing a blog is the enquiries that come in. Here is one such: “I don’t understand how you can agree with Gordon Brown to stealthily foist a federal EU state upon the English and transpose it into convenient regions. We... -
Is Cornwall a nation?
Posted on 22/05/2008 | 6 CommentsAn interesting piece has just been published in the UK section of this website, examining the relationship between Cornwall and the rest of the United Kingdom. (Read it here.) Formally, at present, Cornwall is a county in England, with limited powers of local administration, but... -
Federalism, national minorities and regionalism – the case of Cornwall
Posted on 04/03/2008 | No CommentsBy Philip Hosking The Cornish are a Celtic ethnic identity and historic nation of the southwest of Great Britain. We have our own lesser used Celtic language, sports, festivals, cuisine, music, dance, history all wrapped up in a perception of ourselves as being other than... -
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... -
Review of 2006
Posted on 07/01/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Last year’s annual review remarked that 2005 had been a bad year for federalism. By those standards, 2006 was a better year. Not necessarily because there were many improvements, but at least things did not go on getting worse. Global institutions You... -
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....
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