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Was Brexit a product of "imperial nostalgia"? In a new article - currently on free access in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History - I argue that it was
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Every healthy democracy in the world imposes checks & balances on the exercise of power. Those checks may be constitutional, legal, conventional or merely ethical, but they're crucial if democracy
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It's hard to find a precedent for the petrol the GOP is pouring on the US political system. The nearest might be the Conservative Party pre-1914, which armed paramilitaries and
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Have all these MPs who are tweeting their support for Priti Patel actually read the report into her conduct? If so, perhaps they could share it with the rest of
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Universities should indeed offer "value for money" - but how do we measure the value of education? Every test that comes from government is crassly econometric. We need to recapture
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Important lecture by the Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, warning of a fear "that those in public life no longer feel obliged to follow the so-called
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Britain's uncodified constitution seems more vulnerable to manipulation today than it was in the past. Why? The answer, I suggest, is about two ideas that were once central to British
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This is an excellent article by @davidallengreen. Whatever the merits of a written constitution, it's not going to happen any time soon. So we need achievable changes that can be
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The Johnson-Cummings affair was always likely to end badly. Johnson is a "Bullingdon radical": you smash the pub for fun, then write a cheque to fix the damage. Cummings is
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"'Furious' Boris Johnson threatens Lords reform after peerages for Tory party donors blocked". There are many good reasons for reforming the House of Lords. Its reluctance to be used as
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According to the @Telegraph "Boris Johnson has speeded up plans to curb the judiciary". We must not be fooled by claims that this is about restoring "the sovereignty of Parliament".
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This is the next step in the presidentialisation of UK politics: a US-style "Administration," staffed by prime ministerial appointees from outside Parliament, whose authority flows directly from the PM, rather
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