The Thin Red Line
I have written an article for the European Movement magazine reflecting on Labour’s new European policy (read What is Labour thinking? on page 6 here). Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander […]
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The uncertain boundary between politics and law
Here 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
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Reforms to party funding can strengthen local politics
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
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What went wrong with the euro?
Peter Oborne’s campaign against the pro-Europeans took another step yesterday with his online debate with David Aaronovitch. The latter was one of the targets in his recent book “The guilty
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Who’s deposing whom?
If man proposes and God disposes, it is the bond market that deposes. Two prime ministers have resigned in the past week – George Papandreou of Greece and Silvio Berlusconi
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A German decision that sets back Europe
News reaches me of a rather strange decision by the German constitutional court regarding the elections to the European Parliament. The ruling is forcing a change in the way in
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Wrong on so many levels
Who 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
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The state we’re not in
The eurozone crisis lingers on, wreaking more havoc in the markets and bringing down yet more European governments. The Greek prime minister has resigned, and the Italian prime minister is
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A referendum in Greece?
It is hard, at the time of writing, to know what to make of the suggestion that there should be a referendum in Greece on the terms of the bailout
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Don’t bind my hands
In the 1997 general election, Conservative party leader John Major was reduced to pleading with his candidates who wanted to rule out, for ever, British membership of the euro. In
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