By Richard Laming Published in The Times, 3 June 2008 Sir, In comparing the Lisbon treaty unfavourably with the US Constitution of 1787 (“Jefferson: a lesson for Europeans”, June 2), William […]
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By Richard Laming It is not possible to talk about Europe in the year 2020 without first looking at the world as a whole. I think there are three trends
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By Richard Laming Published in The Observer, 26 November 2006 There is a closer south east Asian parallel than Vietnam for the unfolding disaster in Iraq. (‘Time for your Vietnam history
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By Ian Hackett In these early years of the 21st century, we are witnessing the start of a global revolution whose eventual significance will dwarf that of anything which has
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I went to the Second European Citizens’ Convention in Vienna last week, and said a few words in a discussion about how a future constitution might be ratified. An earlier
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By George Irvin Many Europeans are deeply ambivalent about the economic performance of the European Union. “The EU was meant to bring us a golden future, but instead it has
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A review of “Succeeding Revolutions – 18th Century America and the 21st Century World”, by Ian Hackett (ISBN 0-9552454-0-0, London 2006), and “Siyasa Shariyya, The anthropology of Injustice – The
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There was a fascinating debate on the radio this evening comparing the political philosophies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Both were important figures in the American revolution and the
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We regret to report the death of John Williams, member of the committee of Federal Union. He was active in many seminars and Federal Committee meetings of the UEF, and
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By George Irvin Like millions of other people, I sat up until the morning hours of Wednesday 3 November watching the results of the US election come in, at first
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