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Latest Articles in 'World'
- States or citizens – the flag reveals all - 29/12/2011I wrote on this blog recently of the United Nations as having the weakness that it represents only states and not peoples. Here is an example of the consequences of...
- Is the time right for a new world order? - 19/12/2011The answer to the question in the title of this talk is of course, yes, the time is right, but I think you would like to hear a little more...
- The case for global democracy - 12/12/2011The Occupy London protest (picture Richard Symonds) Based on a talk by Richard Laming at the OccupyLSX camp at St Paul’s Cathedral, 11 December 2011 Before talking about the issue of...
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- The lady in the lake - 03/02/2012Taking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of...
- Incident on the A598 - 25/01/2012This is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy...
- The Republican opponents of Barack Obama - 13/01/2012The presidential primaries are finally underway in the United States, with candidates competing for the right to be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November. (Obama is unopposed as...
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Is the time right for a new world order?
Posted on 19/12/2011 | No CommentsThe answer to the question in the title of this talk is of course, yes, the time is right, but I think you would like to hear a little more from me than that. I am here as chair of Federal Union which was founded... -
The case for global democracy
Posted on 12/12/2011 | No CommentsThe Occupy London protest (picture Richard Symonds) Based on a talk by Richard Laming at the OccupyLSX camp at St Paul’s Cathedral, 11 December 2011 Before talking about the issue of global democracy, I ought to say a few words about Federal Union and its interest... -
Charles Darwin: man ought to extend his social instincts
Posted on 23/11/2011 | No Comments“As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point... -
A vote on Palestine at the UN
Posted on 16/09/2011 | No CommentsThe non-existence of a Palestinian state is one of the last bits of unfinished business after the end of the second world war, when millions of people were forced or fled from their homes, and the lines on maps were redrawn in a hurry or... -
All voters are not equal
Posted on 16/08/2011 | 2 CommentsOne of the basic ideas of federalism is that citizens of the federation all have equal rights, regardless of which member state they might live in. Their rights with respect to the state level might vary, each member state being entitled to decide its own... -
World peace through world trade
Posted on 16/06/2011 | 1 CommentApparently it is the 100th birthday of IBM, the American computer company, formed through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale Company of America on 16 June 1911. Its president during the 1930s, Thomas J Watson... -
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... -
25th anniversary of the death of Altiero Spinelli
Posted on 23/05/2011 | No CommentsStatement on the 25th anniversary of the death of Altiero Spinelli by Andrew Duff MEP, president of the Union of European Federalists On Monday we will recall with great respect the passing of one of the major figures of twentieth century Europe, Altiero Spinelli. The... -
Italian Federalists from Carlo Cattaneo to the new Title V of the Constitution (16 May 2011)
Posted on 20/04/2011 | No Comments16 May 2011 – 6.30 pm Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 6th Italian-British Constitutional Conversation, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, London Metropolitan University, the Federal Trust and the Devolution Club. Speaker: Prof Giorgio Rebuffa, University of Genova Discussant: Prof Peter Leyland,... -
Step out of the 19th century
Posted on 18/04/2011 | 1 CommentThere has been some concern among campaigners that, with the royal wedding held only a few days before the referendum on electoral reform, attention might be distracted from the Big Day. But there is something appropriate about two ancient features of our constitution being celebrated...
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