In the light of the forthcoming referendum on replacing First Past The Post with Alternative Vote for general elections, an interesting seminar yesterday looked at what difference it might have […]
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by Daisy Cross The expenses scandal did much to expose the less attractive side of British politics, the steady, unrelenting trickle of data leaving no party unaffected, and many believe
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The Federal Union committee discussed the forthcoming referendum on electoral reform at its meeting on 13 September and reached the following conclusions. Scope Different federations around the world use different
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One of the basic tenets of federalism is that all citizens should be equal. People living in different member states within a federation might have different rights and duties with
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One of the planks of the coalition government’s platform is to reduce the number of members of the House of Commons and redraw the boundaries so that each constituency has
Keep Cornwall whole! Read More »
I have often thought that the saving grace of the British constitution was that, given how undemocratic, unbalanced and inefficient it is, at least it is interesting. Each part of the
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By Dr Andrew Blick Summary of the November 2009 Federal Trust pamphlet: Devolution and regional administration: a federal UK in embryo? In the period since Labour took office in 1997,
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I was delighted to find in an old collection of papers this cartoon: it appeared in The Independent some time in 1991, I think, when the term “subsidiarity” first made
By Satish Desai Report on an event sponsored by Unlock Democracy Held at 11.30 am on 26 August 2009 at The Guardian, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU The event
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Gordon Brown has resisted calls to express an opinion on whether or not the Scottish government was correct to grant a compassionate release to the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi.
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