Henry V
The National Film Theatre in London is showing a season of films by Laurence Olivier, and I went to see his performance of Henry V. Knowing that the film was […]
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Elevated principles
There are times when I wonder whether the debates we have about federalism and the international system really are as novel as we sometimes imagine. Maybe a lot of what
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Fifty years of the European Union
Based on a talk given by Richard Laming to the Eastbourne branch of the European Movement, 24 January 2007 I was going to start off this talk by saying that
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Roy Jenkins (1920-2003)
With the death of Roy Jenkins we have lost one of Britain’s greatest Europeans. As for so many of his generation, the experience of the Second World War left him
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Succeeding revolutions
By Ian Hackett In these early years of the 21st century, we are witnessing the start of a global revolution whose eventual significance will dwarf that of anything which has
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Re-enactment
Strange report on the BBC this morning, of a historical re-enactment of the Battle of Jena. (You can read it here.) It might be a spectacular pageant, but the BBC
Civilisation
Just back from a weekend seminar in Switzerland, to mark the 60th anniversaries of Winston’s Churchill’s famous speech in Zurich (which you can read here) and of the adoption of
60 years of European federalism
“Between federal state and federation – historical foundation for the future of Europe?” – 22 – 24 September 2006, Zürich and Hertenstein (Switzerland) What is it about? 1946 was a
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H G Wells and world government
By John Parry A review of “Building Cosmopolis: The political thought of H G Wells”, by John S Partington (Ashgate Publishing) The British author H G Wells is mainly known
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Parallel realities in the 21st century
A review of “Succeeding Revolutions – 18th Century America and the 21st Century World”, by Ian Hackett (ISBN 0-9552454-0-0, London 2006), and “Siyasa Shariyya, The anthropology of Injustice – The
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