Clinton vs Trump
During previous American presidential elections, this website has published analyses and reports of the candidates and their policy proposals. It may be a domestic election but it has implications for …
death penalty
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 …
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 …
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 …
Why bring back the death penalty
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 …