The coalition government’s latest experiment in direct democracy is a website where people can post epetitions. If a petition gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be eligible for debate […]
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Osama bin Laden making a video at his compound in Pakistan (picture US federal government) The New Yorker carries a fascinating report on the US Navy Seal operation that killed
Elena Salgado, finance minister of Spain (picture www.la-moncloa.es) Never let it be said that this website does not acknowledge the difficulties and contradictions within the federalist case. It spends enough
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An interesting article by Coca-Cola chief executive Muhtar Kent and business academic Ram Charan, “Give the states the power to build jobs”, carried by the Reuters website argues that, in
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One of the key arguments behind a federalist approach to the fight against climate change, as opposed to an intergovernmental fight, is that different countries will be affected in different
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Conservative MP and leading critic of the EU John Redwood has complained on his blog about the cost of participating in the IMF bailout for Greece. He does not think
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Your blogger took a break from worrying about the fate of the euro or the prospects for further constitutional reform in UK to build some furniture for his baby daughter.
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Apparently it is the 100th birthday of IBM, the American computer company, formed through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale
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After the excitement caused by the outing of the Syrian lesbian blogger –she was in fact a man, in Scotland! – one might ask whether any website is really what
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Another 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
