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Wrong on so many levels
Posted on 07/11/2011 | No CommentsWho says this website is narrow-minded? We leap from the crisis afflicting western capitalism to the question of how a young girl travels to school: federalism has something to say about them both. On the latter, the story in the Evening Standard today is that... -
I am still a pro-European
Posted on 31/08/2011 | No CommentsAn interesting post by Jon Worth arguing that framing the debate about Britain and Europe in terms of pro-European and Eurosceptic is not helpful. The European Union legislates everything from working hours to the price of potatoes, air quality to trade tariffs. There is no... -
Time travel: the limits of parliamentary democracy
Posted on 25/02/2011 | 10 CommentsA forthcoming proposal to change the time zone raises an interesting question about how our parliamentary democracy represents the diverse interests of this country. Putting the clocks forward by one hour will be suggested as part of a government tourism strategy to create more jobs... -
No to the postcode lottery
Posted on 23/11/2010 | 1 CommentAn interesting article in the Financial Times (“Everyone wins in the postcode lottery” by Tim Harford) praises diversity as a means of improving performance. Diverse ecosystems are more resilient in the face of new parasites, and a business with apparently wasteful experiments around the edges... -
Far-reaching decision on marijuana
Posted on 26/10/2010 | No CommentsA report in the Financial Times today about Mexican concerns over a referendum in California. California is a major producer and Californians are major consumers of marijuana, and there is a vote on 2 November about whether to legalise marijuana within the state. This could... -
Can Australian states survive?
Posted on 10/12/2009 | No CommentsA very interesting talk on the state of federalism in Australia yesterday, given by Geoff Anderson of Flinders University, Adelaide. The discussion about whether federalism is primarily about centralisation or decentralisation gets some extra dimensions from the discussion in Australia. On one side, there is... -
Supranational issues
Posted on 28/11/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in the Spectator, 28 November 2009 Sir: Your cover story (“How the Tories can still win in Europe”, 14 November) quotes Liam Fox saying: “We can never allow defence procurement to be a supranational issue”. If he really means this, he... -
Subsidiarity man
Posted on 20/09/2009 | No CommentsI was delighted to find in an old collection of papers this cartoon: it appeared in The Independent some time in 1991, I think, when the term “subsidiarity” first made its way into the debate about the European treaties. The awkward British problem with the... -
Fifty ways to kill recovery
Posted on 28/07/2009 | 1 CommentAn interesting article by James Surowiecki, author of “The Wisdom of Crowds”, in the New Yorker asks whether American federalism is hampering the ability of the United States to respond to the financial crisis and the recession that has followed. (Read the article here.) The... -
The life you can save
Posted on 24/07/2009 | No CommentsA new book by philosopher Peter Singer asks some awkward questions about the moral obligation to give to the poor. Peter Singer has for years examined the limits of what one person might be expected to do for another – he is here interested in...
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