Failure at Copenhagen
They say that the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same action over and over again expecting a different result each time. 193 national governments were represented at […]
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Obama in Oslo
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama was widely dismissed as premature, a sentiment that President Obama himself acknowledged in his acceptance speech. (Read the speech here.)
The trial of Tzipi Livni
Let me say at the outset that there is no simple answer to this question. The development of the law in theory has outstripped the implementation of the law in
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Can Australian states survive?
A very interesting talk on the state of federalism in Australia yesterday, given by Geoff Anderson of Flinders University, Adelaide. The discussion about whether federalism is primarily about centralisation or
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The legitimacy of Lisbon
In a debate at University College London yesterday, the argument came forth from the anti-European speakers that the Lisbon treaty was illegitimate in a way that was not true of
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International anarchy at sea
This blog has written before about the spate of piracy in the seas off the coast of Somalia. Ships are being taken hostage and ransomed back to their owners; the
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It wasn’t a vote about architecture
The timing could not have been better. The fallout of the Conservative decision not to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty now that it has come into force, and
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Reforming the City
The appointment of a Frenchman as European commissioner responsible for the City of London has produced ridiculous claims by people who hail it as a victory over Anglo-Saxon capitalism, and
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A vote on Scottish independence?
A settlement of Scotland’s long-running constitutional debate came a step closer yesterday with the publication of a White Paper outlining a road to independence. Four different scenarios are set out
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The hand of history
In the Daily Telegraph, we find that Conservative shadow defence secretary Liam Fox is adjusting his tune on Nato members’ military commitments. (Read the article here.) Formerly, he had expressed
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