David (Cambridge, Britology Watch): You'd be forgiven for thinking that England was a dirty word. It's certainly not politically correct to utter it in certain circles.
John Jackson (London, Mishcon de Reya & Unlock Democracy): Early last November I posted a piece on OurKingdom suggesting that consultation by government is, on occasion, used to stifle the
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Peter Facey (London, Unlock Democracy): There is a real danger that the debate about English devolution is becoming sterile, with the debate crystallising into two irreconcilable camps.
On the one
Neal Ascherson (London and Argyll, author): In Scotland, the utterly un-British spectacle of an effective and popular minority government is still on stage. Bad times for Alex Salmond's
Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Sunny Hundal has a piece on Cif today calling for the left to unite around the kind of radical democratic agenda he and others discussed last
J Clive Matthews (London, Europhobia): Ignore the stop-gap measure that is the new EU reform treaty and all the attendant calls for referenda. The really important developments for the future
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Dan Leighton reviews: Why We Hate Politics by Colin Hay.
This book challenges dominant assumptions on political disengagement, showing how neo-liberal ideas and public choice theory have helped create a
Jon Bright (London, OK): You may remember towards the end of September last year we reported briefly that Jacqui Smith had, by more or less "personal decree", given
Charter 88 and Constitutional Reform 1988-2008
A twentieth anniversary retrospective
3–4 July 2008
The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
University of Oxford
An Invitation for Papers and Contributions
Papers are
