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# You could not make it up
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/you-could-not-make-it-up/
- Published: 2008-02-14T07:02:24.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:39:24.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** Here is [Jack Straw's speech](http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/sp130208a.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) on our constitution in full. Its official title is

**Modernising the Magna Carta**

This defies satire. Tiring of modernising the 20th century and before even they have managed to 'modernise' the House of Lords, they are now modernising feudualism!