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# OurKingdom Weekly Roundup
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourkingdom-weekly-roundup/
- Published: 2008-03-16T10:03:02.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:39:49.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

From this week we will be publishing the OurKingdom [weekly roundup](http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Sub=268319&ref=opendemocracy.net) on the website as well, to highlight some of the content we put out over the past week.

In the last week, we published:

**News**

- Nick Clegg calls for the number of MPs to be [reduced by 150](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/13/clegg-fleshes-out-the-new-politics/?ref=opendemocracy.net)
- Rumours [surface](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/12/attorney-general-to-get-power-to-halt-criminal-investigations/?ref=opendemocracy.net) that the Attorney General will get new powers to halt criminal investigations in the upcoming constitutional reform bill
- And Tony Blair accepts the latest in a [series of high profile positions](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/14/hell-save-every-one-of-us/?ref=opendemocracy.net)

**Comment**

We covered the launch of Lord Goldsmith's [proposals on citizenship](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/10/on-my-loyal-knees-i-am-your-citizen-i-mean-subject/?ref=opendemocracy.net) in depth:

- Peter Facey calls it [IKEA nationalism](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/11/the-good-citizen-lord-goldsmiths-ikea-nationalism/?ref=opendemocracy.net)
- Simon Barrow says real citizens [should be taught](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/11/good-citizen-iv-what-is-national-pride/?ref=opendemocracy.net) to question national pride
- Bethan Jenkins argues experiments like this only [fall on the weak](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/14/good-citizen-x-oppressive-proposals-like-this-will-only-highlight-division/?ref=opendemocracy.net)
- But [Catherine Fieschi of DEMOS](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/12/good-citizen-vii-goldsmiths-report-was-long-overdue/?ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Rick Muir of ippr](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/11/good-citizen-v-royal-oath-furore-obscures-wider-need-for-ceremony/?ref=opendemocracy.net) argue our citizenship needs strengthening

**Debate**

- Will the [next First Minister of Wales](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/11/i-can-see-a-rainbow-over-wales/?ref=opendemocracy.net) be Labour - or Plaid?
- What should we make of [Enoch Powell's island story](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/10/enoch-powells-island-story/?ref=opendemocracy.net)?
- And how could we use the EU [citizens initiatives](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/10/somewhere-to-practice-european-democracy/?ref=opendemocracy.net)?

**Reviews**

- Where stands the Union now? Gareth Young of the Campaign for an English Parliament takes a [critical look](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/13/status-quo-is-not-an-option-gareth-young-v-ippr-pt-ii/?ref=opendemocracy.net) at Professor John Curtice's pamphlet
- Race, Identity and Belonging: Guy Aitchison [reviews](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/14/race-identity-and-belonging-fresh-perspectives-from-soundings/?ref=opendemocracy.net) a superb Soundings collection