The spread of democratic elections around the world after the end of the cold war was accompanied by the spread of election monitoring. The practice of allowing the quantity of […]
Britain should invite in election monitors Read More »
Two types of nonsense on display in the Daily Express today. The spark is a report that 124 illegal immigrants found on a beach in Corsica were set free by
Nonsense on asylum Read More »
They say that the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same action over and over again expecting a different result each time. 193 national governments were represented at
Failure at Copenhagen Read More »
President Sarkozy has floated the idea of having French MPs to represent French people abroad. There are hundreds of thousands of French citizens living in the UK – London is
Here is another example of the interaction between criminal justice and national sovereignty. Samantha Orobator was convicted in Laos of possession of heroin and was sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted
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A truly insane news report caught my eye in the Financial Times today, proposing a tunnel from Bolivia to an artificial island in the Pacific. (Read the story here.) Bolivia
No need for a tunnel Read More »
I am not going to discuss here the rights and wrongs of the deletion of evidence from the judgment in the case of Binyam Mohamed – the foreign secretary insisted
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An unusual article, but a good one, in the First Post by Claire Berlinski worries about the possibility of an oil tanker accident in the Bosphorus, the sea passage between
A conflict of sovereignties Read More »
An otherwise sensible article by Neil Clark is ruined by his souverainist obsession cropping up again. Neil Clark doesn’t like the EU, and so anything else he doesn’t like will
A sovereign foreign policy Read More »
The apprehension of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been widely acclaimed as a good thing. There are some, though, who disapprove. There is a group of souverainistes who
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