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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...
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Incident on the A598
Posted on 25/01/2012 | No CommentsThis 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 one morning, from the park where we had been playing to the shops to get... -
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... -
Companies try to reduce their tax bills shock
Posted on 12/10/2011 | No CommentsA report by Action Aid has revealed that 98 of the companies in the FTSE 100 have set up subsidiaries in tax havens in order to reduce their UK tax bills. (Read about the report here.) Some of those subsidiaries may well relate to the... -
Study visit to three courts on the continent (5-8 December 2011)
Posted on 24/08/2011 | No CommentsThe European Atlantic Movement www.european-atlantic.org.uk Registered Charity No 306950 An Educational Foundation for promoting understanding of World Affairs and of the Institutions of International Co-operation. President: Lord Watson of Richmond , CBE Chairman: Laurence Smy TEAM STUDY VISIT TO THREE COURTS ON THE CONTINENT The... -
The rule of law is fragile
Posted on 09/08/2011 | 1 CommentThree successive nights of rioting in London have peeled the skin off the urban London and revealed something beating and ugly beneath. Shops and vehicles have been destroyed in several different boroughs, with reports of people injured and even killed. Commentators are falling over themselves... -
Fair shares at the IMF?
Posted on 27/06/2011 | No CommentsConservative MP and leading critic of the EU John Redwood has complained on his blog about the cost of participating in the IMF bailout for Greece. He does not think that the bailout is working and should not be pursued by anybody, but if other... -
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... -
Foreign Policy and its Moral Dilemmas: Corruption and Tyranny (23 May 2011)
Posted on 05/05/2011 | No CommentsThe first meeting in the series organised by the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust focussed on the question of Terrorism and Religious Extremism. In its second meeting to be held on Monday 23 May, the focus of discussion will be on Corruption and Tyranny: how should... -
Superstate or power-sharing?
Posted on 18/08/2010 | No CommentsFederalism is the political philosophy of the dispersal of power. It proposes the division of political power between levels and institutions of government to achieve the best combination of democracy and effectiveness. Since 1938, Federal Union has campaigned for federalism for the UK, Europe and...
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