Robert Kilroy-Silk leaves UKIP
So Robert Kilroy-Silk has finally left the UK Independence Party. It’s hardly a surprise – the anti-European parties are going to be prone to splits of this kind. It would […]
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What’s my motivation here?
One of the things that the pro-European campaign is going to have to establish is the reason for the democratic unification of Europe, and by extension for the European constitution.
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Bilateral treaties
Some maths inspired by an letter published in The Times on 2 November 2004. The letter, from Conservative MPs Bill Cash, Angela Browning, Edward Leigh and Richard Shepherd, opposed the European
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What is federalism?
An article by Professor Apolo Nsibambi, Prime Minister of Uganda, explaining the meaning of federalism: “I invite people for an improvement of the definition and analysis of federalism. We must
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Democracies can be warmongers too
Democracies may find it harder to go to war but they do not find it impossible. As Sir Samuel Brittan acknowledges, the human tendency to divide the world into in-groups
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The dream of sovereignty
By Conrad Russell At the moment, when I am asked whether I am working on history or politics, I often find it very difficult to answer. This is because of
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The case for Eritrean federalism
By Abdul Sayed Prior to the Italian occupation in 1890 the present Eritrean territories, as they stand today, never consisted of one entity. The three regions that Italy moulded together
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Billy Bragg is wrong about the House of Lords
Well-known singer and campaigner Billy Bragg has launched his own campaign for reform of the House of Lords, proposing it should be elected at the same time as the House
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On life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
By Geoff Taylor Partly as a result of the gridlock in the USA election, I came to realise that Great Britain’s system of government has become anachronistic and thoroughly retrograde.
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The second elections in Scotland and Wales: issues and verdicts
By Professor Stanley Henig The elections for a second Scottish Parliament and a second Welsh Assembly on 1 May 2003 were each contested by four principal parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal
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