Not in front of the rest of the world
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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …