Regionalisation by stealth?
One of the joys of writing a blog is the enquiries that come in. Here is one such: “I don’t understand how you can agree with Gordon Brown to stealthily […]
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English regional government
Is Cornwall a nation?
An interesting piece has just been published in the UK section of this website, examining the relationship between Cornwall and the rest of the United Kingdom. (Read it here.) Formally,
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Federalism, national minorities and regionalism – the case of Cornwall
By Philip Hosking The Cornish are a Celtic ethnic identity and historic nation of the southwest of Great Britain. We have our own lesser used Celtic language, sports, festivals, cuisine,
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An English Grand Committee won’t work
In a further development of the Conservative idea of English votes for English laws idea, Tory MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind is now toying with the notion of an English Grand
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Review of 2006
By Richard Laming Last year’s annual review remarked that 2005 had been a bad year for federalism. By those standards, 2006 was a better year. Not necessarily because there were
Balance and Gordon Brown
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
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The centralising curse of UK Treasury rules
By George Irvin Britain’s public finance is highly centralised by the standards of the European Union and the OECD. The degree to which tax revenue is centralised is far higher
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Fifty one votes to one
I took part in a debate with leading anti-European John Redwood on Thursday evening in his parliamentary constituency, Wokingham. (You can read my speech here.) We started off a little
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Review of 2005
By Richard Laming 2005 will be remembered as a bad year for federalism. There have been bad years before and there no doubt will be bad years again, so there
The future of English regional government
By Richard Laming “I would be interested to know what the Federal Union’s response is post-NE Assembly defeat (which as you know was rejected by nearly 80%), and how it
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