Pirates!
It is harder to enforce the law at sea than on land. The notions of territory and sovereignty are applied in a different way. There are two current news stories […]
rule of law
The court of public opinion
“The prime minister has said it’s not acceptable and, therefore, it will not be accepted. And it might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it’s not
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The path of agile decision-making
How should international organisations take decisions? The case for Qualified Majority Voting has just signed up its newest recruit, John Craddock. General Craddock is Supreme Allied Commander Europe, which makes
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The EU’s roots are showing
Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Charles Clover reported last week on the failure of a bid by environmental pressure group WWF to overturn EU fishing policy in the courts. The complaint
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New book: “Federalist Thinking” by Lucio Levi
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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Federal policing
There is an interesting story in the Guardian today from its archives, recounting the end of American gangster John Dillinger, as reported on 24 July 1934. Read it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/jul/24/5
Voluntary cooperation
The fact that the Lisbon treaty is currently going through parliament has given Eurosceptics a new opportunity to object to the fact that the EU is based on supranational institutions
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Lessons from the Chatham Islands
A visitor to the blog objected to my post on the thrill of power, suggesting that the history of the Chatham Islands provides a counter-argument. With due respect to the
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Dan Hannan is the wrong person to write about Kosovo
A blog post by my good friend Daniel Hannan proposes the partition of Kosovo as a means of avoiding war. Read it here. He makes it all sound so easy,
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Ethics
A British government consultation document on ethical trade in the food industry remarks that “the sourcing of fish from an unsustainable or sustainable source is as much an ethical issue