Democratic values
By Richard Laming Published in The Independent, 5 November 2007 Sir, If the late King Faisal once asked, “What can be more democratic than a citizen having free access to […]
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Global Parliament
A series of programmes on the BBC looks at democracy in practice, and includes an opinion poll conducted in 15 countries around the world. (Read the survey here.) Naturally, anything
The bottom billion
Now that I have finished reading Paul Collier’s excellent book on poverty, “The Bottom Billion”, I can write down my thoughts about it. The central theme of the book is
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Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy?
By John Preston The question asks: “Is the Constitutional Treaty the first step to democracy? – and to discuss (implicitly) the democratic deficit? – and the future of the Treaty?
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Europe in 2020: what’s the prognosis?
By Richard Laming It is not possible to talk about Europe in the year 2020 without first looking at the world as a whole. I think there are three trends
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Blair at war
Tony Blair’s speech on the role of the UK armed forces last week deserves some attention on this blog. (Read the speech here.) A lot of what he said was
How to fight the far right
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 17 January 2007 Two parallel developments in the European Parliament this month reveal much about the state of European democracy. First of all, there is the
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When it comes to Vodka, the answer is clear
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 28 September 2006 I wrote in these pages earlier in the year about wine. Now I am going to move on to vodka. On another
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Morality in foreign policy
Amid all the debate about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the consequences, civilian and political, that have followed, I was prompted to have another look at an old article
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A bit of good
Local elections yesterday. I spent a few hours knocking up, that is going to visit supporters of the party in their homes to remind them to go out to vote.