No more trivial tinkering
After Scotland’s SNP landslide in the 2015 UK general election, the idea of saving the union by the introduction of a federal constitution is gaining traction, but a 4-unit federation …
English regional government
The United Kingdom: All Change after the Scottish Referendum? (21 October 2014)
17.00 for 17.30 until 19.00, followed by a reception Room MG1-02 London Metropolitan University 84 Moorgate London EC2M 6SQ Map “The Vow” to devolve more powers to Scotland, made by …
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The Daily Telegraph should make its mind up
There is a marvellous article by Allister Heath in the Daily Telegraph today, outlining an alternative to Scottish independence. For Scotland to vote to leave the United Kingdom would cause …
Local government pause for thought
It has long been a contention of this website that democracy should be thought of not merely as a set of rules but as a culture. While elections and elected …
The end of the coalition
The results of the voting that took place on 3 May surely spell the beginning of the end for Britain’s coalition government. (Read about the election results here.) I am …
Who can create jobs?
An interesting article by Coca-Cola chief executive Muhtar Kent and business academic Ram Charan, “Give the states the power to build jobs”, carried by the Reuters website argues that, in …
Regional assemblies are a hard sell
The dog days of summer lend themselves to the more minor issues of political campaigning. Across the country, Conservative MPs and PPCs are trying to pick a fight over elected …
The fate of declining communities
Jonathan Guthrie writes in the Financial Times about the problems faced by towns and cities once the economic reason for their prosperity goes into decline. Cities in the north of …
Centralised states bad for economy
It has long been an argument of Federal Union that a federal United Kingdom would be economically more successful than the centralised version we have at the moment. During the …
Completing the process of devolution
Letter in the Guardian, Thursday 19 February 2009 George Monbiot’s suggestion of an English parliament is not new. We had one during the 1980s, when a Conservative government sustained by …