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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Proved right on press regulation - 18/03/2013This blog has not expected to be proved right so quickly on press regulation, but that’s what happened today. At the end of last year, when the Leveson commission published...
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
transport policy Archive
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When panic-buying makes sense
Posted on 01/04/2012 | 1 CommentThe queues outside petrol stations last week tell us something important about the way politics is conducted in this country (or, for that matter, anywhere else). The lesson is that panic-buying sometimes make sense, which means that the purpose of politics is to prevent the... -
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... -
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... -
Speed costs
Posted on 13/06/2011 | 1 CommentAnother example emerged today of how national borders get in the way of fighting crime. This time, the crimes are speeding and parking offences. There has been an influx into London of so-called supercars owned by Arab millionaires, which are designed to drive at very... -
Speed kills
Posted on 20/05/2011 | No CommentsYour blogger was required to attend a speed awareness course last night, having been caught by a speed camera two months ago and wanting not to acquire any penalty points. I was expecting some kind of annoying lecture on how bad it is to speed... -
The wisdom of crowds
Posted on 11/06/2010 | No CommentsOne of the intellectual fashions of the moment is crowd-sourcing, that is the idea that good ideas and useful information can come from the population as a whole rather than from nominated experts. Its origin is a “guess the weight of the ox” competition in... -
Is Heathrow airport getting too big
Posted on 16/01/2009 | No CommentsA major transport initiative such as the proposed new runway and terminal building at Heathrow airport, announced yesterday, provoke mixed feelings from a federalist perspective. Aside from the considerations of carbon dioxide emissions, which aren’t really within the scope of this blog, there is the... -
Which government for Europe? Some reflections on the idea of limited government
Posted on 30/08/2008 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming In the discussion about the future government of Europe, I want to offer a few remarks not on what the EU should do, but on what it should not do. I think that this is just as important a question. This is... -
Brussels’ glaring stupidity
Posted on 13/10/2007 | No CommentsRead an exchange in the Financial Times between Matthew Engel and Professor Tim Buthe, of the Center for European Studies, Duke University, North Carolina, on the way in which technical standards are set in the EU and in the United States. 071013ft -
Trade on trial
Posted on 25/11/2006 | 1 CommentI was at a debate on Thursday evening about EU trade policy: is it, broadly speaking, doing the right things? The pro case was that international trade is a good thing, enabling countries to make and export whatever it is they do best and buy...
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