In 2019 some 80 per cent of the UK live not at the heart of big cities, but in the suburbs bordering our metropolises. The suburbs are of great psephological s...
With a further extension of Brexit deadline day now on the table, the future for Northern Ireland – and the Irish Backstop – appears increasingly uncertain. Pa...
Britain’s new prime minster, Boris Johnson,
berates opponents of Brexit for being gloomy pessimists, unwilling to embrace
the golden age that automatically awa...
Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an
entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime
minister, even if briefly. Th...
Social media are blamed for almost everything
that is wrong with democracy.
Facebook, twitter and other platforms are held
responsible for pollution of the...
Last year was the centenary of the 1918 Act which introduced universal suffrage for all male citizens over twenty‐one and all female citizens over thirty. Wome...
Last month the US Department
of Justice published Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s report on his
investigation into Russian interference in the country’s 20...
It has been widely
observed that something has gone awry with the Conservative party. Where once
its watchwords were pragmatism and economic competence, solici...
Long before it acquired the name
of Brexit, the project of making the UK leave the European Union was a solution
in search of a problem.
This EU‐bashing wa...
I
began this series of blogs by noting the fogginess of the UK’s constitutional position
in relation to the Brexit referendum. In formal terms the vote was adv...
The 2016 Brexit referendum, we were often told during the campaign, was a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity for the British people to decide on future members...
Brexit is an issue that combines the
need for urgent practical decision making with profound questions about the
value and meaning of democracy.
In m...
