Dejan Djokic has an article on the main opendemocracy site reflecting on the recent arrest under the Terrorism Act of an employee and a postgradaduate at the University of Nottingham
This is a reflection after the by-election by David Lammy MP the Labour Minister for Skills just run in Progress Magazine. It links to our discussion of the political class
Fair Deal (Slugger O'Toole): In Preparing Britain for the future, the government proposes consulting the UK public about the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. Such a Bill is
Jason O'Mahony: Apparently, if you’re against the Lisbon Treaty, you are either an unthinking eurosceptic, a laughing stock amongst continental constitutional amendment fetishists, or on the verge
Gareth Young (Lewes, CEP): What comes first, nationalism or the nation?
For Mark Perryman it seems that an English Parliament is inevitable; England is the human flotsam that will emerge
Iain Dale (London, blogger): In a modern democratic state we ought to believe that power should be transferred from the few to the many. Nowhere is this more important than
Paul Kingsnorth (Oxford, author Real England): Peter Facey of Unlock Democracy has posed an interesting personal question. He feels the issues of identity but draws back for fear of having
Claire O'Brien (Florence, EUI): Brown will not come back from this. £120 cashback or not, his premiership appears to draw closer to twilight with every passing day. The
Peter Facey (London, Unlock Democracy): There has been lots of discussion on this blog about nationalism, patriotism, identity and even how the centre left should become more nationalist.
I have
Catherine Reilly (Dublin, Metro Eireann): Just days before he left office on 7th of May, former Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Bertie Ahern told an audience at Harvard University that rejecting
Guy Aitchison (London, OK): With all the hubbub surrounding Wendy Alexander’s U turn on a referendum last week I missed the Constitution Unit’s contribution to the debate, released
Scott Kelly, a researcher for the Conservatives, explains why the party should back a written constitution.
Scott Kelly (Parliament): I recently joined my students from New York University at a
