Guy Aitchison

Guy Aitchison is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University. He is a political theorist with interests in human rights, political resistance and migration. You can follow him @GuyAitchison.

Irish? Undecided on the Lisbon Treaty?

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Today's the big day of course. If you haven't made up your mind already (or you just fancy a laugh) then read

By Guy Aitchison

/ 12 Jun 2008

Scotland's top prosecutor opposes 42 days

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini has intervened in the debate over the Counter-Terrorism Bill on the eve of Wednesday's crunch vote in the Commons. In

By Guy Aitchison

/ 10 Jun 2008

The case against 42 days

Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): I blogged during the week on how Brown cannot but lose on the coming vote on 42 days detention. If the Counter-Terrorism Bill gets through the

By Guy Aitchison

/ 8 Jun 2008

MoJ bends the law on Freedom of Information

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): The sixth annual FOI Live conference took place this week. Organised by the Constitution Unit, it brought together key players in the world of Freedom of

By Guy Aitchison

/ 5 Jun 2008

42 days looks bad either way

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): All the papers are reporting this morning that Government concessions on 42 days detention have convinced a number of Labour wobblers to back Brown. Reassurances given

By Guy Aitchison

/ 3 Jun 2008

Will Cameron be more reforming than Blair?

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Normal Mouth has a piece on a Cameron premiership which appears in the Welsh weekly Golwyg. He reckons that a number of important issues are converging

By Guy Aitchison

/ 1 Jun 2008

Tory voters in Wales back a law-making parliament

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): There has been an extraordinary transformation in Tory attitudes to devolution in Wales. Around 40% of Welsh Tory voters now want the country to have a

By Guy Aitchison

/ 28 May 2008

A Lib Dem case for elected mayors

Guy Aitchison (London, OK):Remember Labour's "big idea" for elected mayors across the country? It was quietly shelved in 2002 after a dissapointing uptake by the

By Guy Aitchison

/ 27 May 2008

Where's the new thinking on the left?

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): As I write this in the early hours it looks very much like Edward Timpson will be the next MP for Crewe and Nantwich having won

By Guy Aitchison

/ 23 May 2008

Clegg makes the case for radical reform

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Nick Clegg has a devastating op-ed piece in today’s Independent on Britain’s political and constitutional “crisis” (what we in OK have been calling our

By Guy Aitchison

/ 20 May 2008

Counting the cost of the Quango state

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): The Taxpayers’ Alliance has released a report documenting the size and cost of Britain’s bewildering array of non-elected public bodies, what it calls our “unseen

By Guy Aitchison

/ 20 May 2008

Rebels make their move on 42 days

Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Reports this morning suggested that Brown was ready to make concessions on the 42 days, legislating for greater parliamentary and judicial scrutiny in return for the

By Guy Aitchison

/ 16 May 2008