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- 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...
- Letter published in the Times, 20 August 2011 Sir, Professor Bogdanor’s warnings of possible gridlock between two elected Houses in Parliament are well made but one might question the assumption...
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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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The uncertain boundary between politics and law
Posted on 24/11/2011 | 1 CommentHere 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 35th FA Mann Lecture, “Judicial and Political Decision Making: The Uncertain Boundary”, on Tuesday 8... -
Constitutional Reform – End of the Road? (14 July 2011)
Posted on 15/06/2011 | No CommentsConstitutional Reform – End of the Road? 14 July 2011, 4.30pm – 6.30pm, followed by a reception Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB Robert Hazell, Director of The Constitution Unit, will talk about the whole of the new government’s constitutional reform programme... -
Who needs Wikileaks?
Posted on 11/02/2011 | 3 CommentsWho needs Wikileaks when we’ve got Sir Gus O’Donnell? His report into the background to the decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 was published on 7 February and tells an interesting story. The UK government had... -
Should prisoners have the right to vote?
Posted on 07/02/2011 | 6 CommentsThere will be a debate in the House of Commons later this week on whether people sentenced to prison should have the right to vote. The issue comes up because the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the current situation which is that... -
Oh dear, Vince
Posted on 21/12/2010 | No CommentsThe revelation that Vince Cable had spoken boastfully and even aggressively to undercover reports from the Daily Telegraph posing as constituents will cause him no little embarrassment. He is a leading figure on the left of the Liberal Democrats and he may well be right... -
Increasingly presidential
Posted on 30/04/2010 | No CommentsThe Conservatives have proposed that anyone who takes over as prime minister during a parliament should be required to call a general election within six months. (Read a report on this proposal here.) Obviously, this is a gibe at Gordon Brown, who after succeeding Tony... -
Not enough separation in Scotland
Posted on 24/08/2009 | 1 CommentThe recent decision by Scottish justice sectary Kenny MacAskill to free, on compassionate grounds, the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has provoked a storm. American politicians are complaining, British politicians are complaining, and now Scottish politicians are complaining. An emergency debate was held in the... -
US-style senators
Posted on 28/05/2009 | 3 CommentsTimothy Garton Ash, thinking about possible changes to the British constitution, writes of the House of Lords that “We can’t have US-style senators because we don’t have US-style states.” (Item 5 in his list here.) US senators are indeed powerful figures in the American political... -
The court of public opinion
Posted on 02/03/2009 | 1 Comment“The prime minister has said it’s not acceptable and, therefore, it will not be accepted. And it might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it’s not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that’s where the government steps in.” Those... -
Politics dressed up as law
Posted on 25/06/2008 | No CommentsAs this blog predicted, the attempt by Stuart Wheeler to force a referendum on the Lisbon treaty has been rebuffed by the courts. (The original story is told here.) You can read the judgment here or you can follow my summary below. The case brought...
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