Since the referendum in 2016, the Government has repeatedly justified its decisions on Brexit by invoking the concept […]
Democracy
At the beginning of Democracy in America, de Tocqueville writes that in studying democracy its “…Faults strike one […]
Richard Bellamy is right about many things. One of them is that judicial review cannot be defended on […]
When the UK’s High Court rendered its decision on whether the government could trigger Article 50 of the […]
In his post of last week, Richard Ekins argues that political and legal elites should resist the urge […]
One of the most important assumptions underlying this view of British politics since 1945 was that governments were […]
I was listening to the radio a little while ago, and heard Martin Jacques talking about China. I […]
In this post, I argue against protest voting for fringe parties that mock the conventional party systems. To […]
After the collapse of the coalition government’s House of Lords Reform Bill in August, the UK Parliament’s upper […]
The contemporary discussion about secret trials in the UK echoes earlier controversies about TPIMs, control orders, detention without […]
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