American Tribalism
By chance, I heard Andrew Sullivan’s radio essay about Donald Trump and tribalism in America on BBC Radio 4 yesterday evening. Following the shock presidential election result last year, I had heard...
View ArticleReview: THE ELECTION (ITV)
2nd May 2019 The chattering classes just love to compare the low turnouts at local and general elections, with the fact that people actually choose to pay money to vote for reality TV contestants. So...
View ArticleTwo Conceptions of Free Speech in Ancient Athens
I’m really enjoying ‘Clear and Present Danger: The Free Speech Podcast’ hosted by Jacob Mchangama. Its a comprehensive tour of the concept of freedom of expression. It begins in ancient Athens and...
View ArticleWhen the Myth of American Democracy Explodes
Listening to Carol Anderson talk about her book One Person, No Vote on the Ezra Klein Show podcast; about voter ID laws and other measures that actively prevent black people from voting; about...
View Article#Brexit: Democracy begins with a vote, but it doesn’t end there
I was unable to attend the Put It To The People march at the weekend for secret reasons, but I have signed the poorly worded petition to ‘Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU’.1 While the march was...
View Article‘People’s Vote’ and ‘Revoke Article 50’ have no place in Parliament’s...
Yesterday, the British Parliament once again ‘took back control’ of the Brexit process from our hapless government. MPs held another round of indicative votes on what Brexit policy might possibly...
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The ‘Whether’ and the ‘How’ of Brexit
Earlier this week, the House of Commons seized control of the parliamentary timetable, and passed its own piece of legislation through the chamber. The House of Lords then passed it without amendments,...
View ArticleWould You Hand The Proroguing Power to Labour’s Hard Left?
Jolyon Maugham QC is the director of the Good Law Project, who has co-ordinated several of the big Brexit-related court cases, including the Cherry and Miller cases currently at the Supreme Court....
View ArticleLabour’s Brexit Policy is Actually Fairly Simple
I posted a Twitter thread on the Labour Party’s Brexit Policy, and thought I’d post it here. When people say that they don’t understand the Labour Party policy on Brexit what do they mean? Do they mean...
View ArticleRosencrantz, Guildernstern, Coronavirus Incubators and The Rule of Law Are...
One of the awful things about COVID-19 is that the moment of infection passes unnoticed. It’s the asymptomatic period that drives up the exponential spread and makes it so difficult to stop. This point...
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