Finding an identity
An interesting essay by immigration minister Liam Byrne, entitled “A more united kingdom”, deserved a better press than it got when it was published earlier this week. Most attention was […]
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Scotland
Federal Union review of 2007
The overwhelming sentiment from the year just gone must be one of relief. Relief that the EU finally agreed the Lisbon Treaty and got its institutional progress back on track.
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What’s in a name
Interesting to see that the new Scottish Nationalist administration in Edinburgh has adopted the term “government” to describe itself. The previous Labour administration was always coy about the term: it
Representing Scotland
A marvellous report on the BBC today that the Scottish Executive is being sidelined in the making of UK policy at European level. (Read the report here.) Of course, such
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The centralising curse of UK Treasury rules
By George Irvin Britain’s public finance is highly centralised by the standards of the European Union and the OECD. The degree to which tax revenue is centralised is far higher
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The second elections in Scotland and Wales: issues and verdicts
By Professor Stanley Henig The elections for a second Scottish Parliament and a second Welsh Assembly on 1 May 2003 were each contested by four principal parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal
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Federal union, from Scotland with love
By David Millar Mr Gladstone and the Claim of Right Has anything good come out of Scotland? Yes, lots of things – whisky, Rabbie Burns, Sean Connery, to name but
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Steps towards federalism in the UK
By Ernest Wistrich The election of a Labour government in 1997 signalled the start of major constitutional reform. Until then the United Kingdom had operated one of Europe’s most centralised
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