Déjà vu all over again
During the 1990s, the political debate about Europe in Britain was polluted by Sir James Goldsmith and his Referendum party. (I have thought a lot about which verb to use […]
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Lessons from Libya
It looks as if Colonel Gaddafi is losing his battle for control in Libya, something this website is not sorry about. It is a victory for the rebels, and a
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Is war really in decline?
It is worth reading an article in Foreign Policy magazine by Joshua S Goldstein on the future of warfare, “Think Again: War”. Writing for an American audience, Professor Goldstein notes
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All voters are not equal
One of the basic ideas of federalism is that citizens of the federation all have equal rights, regardless of which member state they might live in. Their rights with respect
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The rule of law is fragile
Three successive nights of rioting in London have peeled the skin off the urban London and revealed something beating and ugly beneath. Shops and vehicles have been destroyed in several
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Europe without the euro
If eurozone member states such as Greece have allowed their domestic costs to rise and their economies to become uncompetitive, there is a long hard road back to competitiveness again.
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Mayhem in the market
The authorities are under criticism for losing control. A mob mentality took over, looting local businesses, robbing innocent people of their livelihoods and their savings. What started as a small
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Glad to be out of sync
The comments posted on Twitter by death penalty campaigner Paul Staines are revealing. He said that: “restoring the death penalty has profoundly eurosceptic implications.” And furthermore that: “US, India, China
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The EU and the death penalty
At the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter
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Self-control
Given that the death penalty had already effectively been abolished in the UK decades previously (in 1969 in Great Britain and in 1973 in Northern Ireland), it was uncontroversial in