As Gordon Brown gets closer to becoming prime minister and accordingly tries to accentuate his Englishness, his opponents are trying to raise the barrier of his being Scottish. The latest […]
Balance and Gordon Brown Read More »
One of the basic laws of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else. The same is true in federalism. I was prompted to write this by a news
British politics has gone through some severe shocks in the past 12 months, faced with constitutional upheavals at home and abroad. As 2004 opens, we look at what effect those
Federalism in 2003 – a review Read More »
By Brendan Donnelly At the end of last year, I was offered the post of Director of the Federal Trust, an offer I immediately accepted. Most of my friends were
The future’s federal Read More »
In a democracy, you need a very good reason to deny people something they have voted for. The Labour government has yet to come up with that good reason regarding
London should run its own transport system Read More »
Tony Blair declared that his would be a government of “high ideals and hard choices”. Richard Laming reflects on whether that promise has been kept. Shortly after the 1997 general
By Sir Anthony Meyer For the past year Federal Union has been the British member of the UEF, and its aims are, as they always have been, those of the
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