This website is going to break the habit of many years and praise chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne. His economic policies may not be working out quite as planned, […]
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The queues outside petrol stations last week tell us something important about the way politics is conducted in this country (or, for that matter, anywhere else). The lesson is that
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Lucio Levi, Federalist Thinking, Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 2008 Federalist Thinking is a concise and comprehensive account of the development of federalism from its starting point in history
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By Richard Laming Published in The Times, 14 December 2007 Sir, You are right to insist on the importance of reform of the institutions that manage the global economy (leading article,
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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
By Richard Laming This article is a response to the paper “In the name of the people”, by Titus Alexander, chair of Charter 99. You can read the original paper
Why global accountability matters Read More »
By Stephen S. Roach, 24 April 2006 The world has avoided a major financial crisis for more than seven years. This is due more to luck than design. With oil prices
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Federalists are pretty suspicious of the notion of the “international community”. It is generally taken to mean gatherings of countries who get together to enact common policies that might otherwise
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By John Williams A review of “The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order”, by George Monbiot, (Flamingo, £15.99) Rare in this post-modernist age, this book proclaims
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By Richard Laming Notes for “Federalism and the global challenges”, Ventotene, 4 September 2002 What do federalists think of globalisation? What is globalisation? It is people and organisations doing things
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