Supported by Bernard Jenkin and some others of his fellows, Bill Cash has sent a note to all Conservative MPs dated 7th January and titled "The EU Bill: Parliament,
We launch the first in an occasional series of openDemocracy meditations on the question: Is democracy a human right? This reply begins with Mandy Rice-Davies, lingers on the unfinished business of the Cold War, and returns via Confucius, Mohammed and Darwin to the digital revolution which has us
Continuing the OK Referendum Plus debate, the case for the AV referendum as a step towards replacing the 'sovereignty of parliament'
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I have not yet spoken to him but I am sure that my friend Bud approves strongly of our Coalition’s budget.
The UK Parliament has committed itself to upholding the "rule of law". But what can this possibly mean in the absence of a written constitution and a clear division of powers between judges and politicians?
I was startled this morning to hear a Tory MP say on the Today programme that the objection to David Cameron’s wishes with regard to the 1922 Committee (he
Reading the text of today’s speech by Nick Clegg, in which he promised a re-alignment of the relationship between the people and the state, “the biggest shake-up of our
The very good thing about the agreement between the Tories and the LibDems is that, if as intended (we are told) it produces five years of stable government by an
In today’s Financial Times is a letter signed by some of those present last week at a joint conference of the Better Government Initiative and The Constitution Society (you
The Ministry of Justice has done something extremely useful! It has demonstrated that, given a fair wind, deliberative democracy could become a valuable addition to our representative democracy with liberating consequences for individuals and unifying consequences for our community as a whole.
On Monday evening there was a gathering of a lawyerly London elite with a sprinkling of other political intellectuals to discuss Richard Gordon ‘s new book, Repairing British Politics. This
John Jackson on Repairing British politics: A Blueprint for Constitutional Change by Richard Gordon.
For me one thing leaps out of Richard Gordon’s interesting and thought-provoking book. It is
