CoSERG (Cornwall): In January a CoSERG member was approached by a television company making a programme for ITV on the change to unitary local government in Cornwall. The programme researcher
Stuart Weir & Andrew Blick (Cambridge & London, Democratic Audit): David Cannadine recently wrote an interesting article for the BBC providing an historical perspective on the current scandals about corruption
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Successful government depends on direction more than policies. Policies only make sense to voters as part of a larger direction for the country and its citizens
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): This surely must be in the lead for the least interesting headline of the 21st century:
Professor calls for update in attitudes to Scottish independence
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Hugo Robinson (London, Open Europe): As widely predicted, the Government - aided by a three line whip, together with a combination of threats, concessions and promises to Labour backbenchers -
Guy Herbert (London, NO2ID): Of interest to Our Kingdom readers in the latest rolling announcement about the ID scheme is the novel constitutional principle in play: officials at a Home
Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Yesterday evening Michael Wills gave the annual Constitution Unit lecture to a packed out room in UCL's School of Public Policy. Its title was
This is the list of losses of liberty and rights since 1997 which Henry Porter submitted to the JCHR on Monday and we wrote about here. The list is a
Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon): Ian Paisley bowed to the growing discontent within the DUP yesterday, and announced that he will resign as Northern Ireland's First Minister
Jon Bright (London, OK): Henry Porter gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on Monday. He lays out a striking case about the systematic erosion of previously taken
Despite the common perception that Islamic radicalisation is growing apace in west Asia, the decline in faith in Iraq belies notions of an increasingly extremist region. Exhausted by years of
Anthony Barnett (Edinburgh, OK): I'm up in Edinburgh where I went to hear Tom Nairn deliver last night's 16th Edinburgh Lecture Globalization and Nationalism: The New
