By Bill Newton Dunn MEP Forty-eight hours in Bilbao last week surprised me. North-Eastern Spain is not depressed by ETA terrorism. It is a prosperous region with below average unemployment, […]
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James Kirkup in the Daily Telegraph politics blog today describes very well the background to the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. Specifically, he explains why the
It’s a federal system, stupid Read More »
By John Parry Seventy years ago, on 16 June 1940, the British government under Winston Churchill took the remarkable step of offering complete and indissoluble political union with France. The
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Archaeologists sometimes find that a covering of snow on the landscape can reveal to aerial photography previously unknown features such as barrows and homesteads that in normal weather conditions would
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A continuing theme on this blog is the way in which politics has to adapt to the real world. Theoretical concepts such as democracy, sovereignty and free trade need to
Michael Ignatieff, Leader of Canadian Liberal Opposition, quoted in interview with Charles Kennedy, The House Magazine, 21/9/09 “In Canada we have a deep, entrenched sense that we are a federal
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“Poland believes that the European integration is the best response to challenges we face in a rapidly changing, multi-polar world. We don’t want the European Union to become a “super-state”,
By Richard Laming Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this subject. I should make clear that what I propose to say is not strictly true. I do not
Federalism and the financial and economic crisis Read More »
An interesting article by James Surowiecki, author of “The Wisdom of Crowds”, in the New Yorker asks whether American federalism is hampering the ability of the United States to respond
Fifty ways to kill recovery Read More »
A new book by philosopher Peter Singer asks some awkward questions about the moral obligation to give to the poor. Peter Singer has for years examined the limits of what
The life you can save Read More »
