Moral right
Former head of the army, Lord Dannatt, says to the BBC that: “If we thought that Gaddafi had lost the moral right to rule this country a month ago, he […]
Step out of the 19th century
There 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
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A rotten way to fight a referendum
There is something unsatisfying about the arguments deployed by the Yes side in the referendum campaign on electoral reform. They are right that the Alternative Vote is preferable to First
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Liberal and democratic
Blogger David Allen Green writes on the New Statesman website that he has joined the Liberal Democrats, even though he does not agree with all their policies. For example: “I
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Can the British ever be European citizens?
Earlier in the year, I spoke at a Federal Trust conference on European citizenship and specifically the British perspective on the issue. The slides from the presentation I gave are
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A briefing from Number 10
A report in the Evening Standard today on the precarious state of the coalition government, faced with health reforms, the AV referendum and much else. The National Health Service, in
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Denis MacShane picks the wrong target on the European Parliament
A new pamphlet by Labour MP Denis MacShane, “Europe’s parliament: Reform or perish?”, published by the Centre for European Reform, worries about the decline of public interest in the European
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Report on Federal Union annual conference
Federal Union’s AGM and annual conference was held in London on Saturday 19 March 2011. The morning session looked at the future of the eurozone and Britain’s possible role. John
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Britain and the future of the eurozone
By John Palmer There are two seemingly very different conclusions to be drawn from the latest European Union summit meetings designed to tackle the growing crisis within the eurozone. The
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Globalisation at the Crossroads: The End of the Experiment, or Just the Beginning? (30 March 2011)
Professor Robert Leppard, Provost, Richmond, the American International University in London requests the pleasure of your company at the third lecture in the Global Transformations series Globalisation at the Crossroads: The