Lord Scarman helped plan the D-Day landings – and in later years was a bold supporter of constitutional reform. We need a little of that spirit again now.
When we lost John Smith, we lost a leader who would have taken Labour and Britain down the path of radical and necessary reform of our constitution and political culture.
Labour’s shadow Lord Chancellor Sadiq Khan spoke out strongly for universal human rights, the Human Rights Act and checks on government powers. Will his party colleagues, and possibly their potential allies after 2015, the Lib Dems, be as bold if they are in power?
A new epoch of democratic reform in Britain is needed to respond to the transformation of the British state, the disintegration of the old constitutional order and the rise of corporate power, now that hope of a Labour Lib Dem alliance for democracy is over. The pure but totalising strategy of the
Charter 88 and the constitutional reform movement: 20 years on. Launch of special issue of Parliamentary Affairs. Wed Dec 9th 2009, Portcullis House, Westminster, 6 - 7.30pm
David Erdos (Oxford): An exciting conference on constitutional reform organized by Oxford University's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) is happening next Friday 4th (full-day) and Saturday 5th (half-day)
Charter 88 and Constitutional Reform 1988-2008
A twentieth anniversary retrospective
3–4 July 2008
The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
University of Oxford
An Invitation for Papers and Contributions
Papers are
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just in time for the collapse of New Labour in a cloud of double-dealing, the escutcheon of Charter 88 has been hammered to the wall of
