Posts Tagged ‘constitutional reform’
Why should England care?
Alex Salmond has proclaimed the benefits of Scottish independence for England. Who is he trying to kid?
Saving the Union
The speed of the game in the UK has now changed, and unionists must now offer a better and more expansive vision than the beguiling image projected by Alex Salmond, argues Wales’ most distinguished right wing constitutional thinker
Britain or Europe?
If this is the beginning of the end of Britain’s involvement in the European Union it will radically transform the Welsh constitutional debate
Tam’s Teaser
How did it come to be that the Conservative and Unionist Party became willing to place the Union in jeopardy, and how should the Labour Party respond?
The LibDems’ self-imposed crisis
Are the junior partners in the coalition helping to dig their own grave?
Size isn’t anything
Adam Price’s recent study of the performance of small states sets out to demolish one bone-headed axiom, but merely ends up replacing it with another
So why exactly is the Union worth saving?
The SNP’s victory in the Scottish Parliament elections puts the future of the British Union front-and-centre. But have Unionists ever really questioned their own beliefs?
If the Lords didn’t exist we’d have to invent it
The government has promised to publish its proposals for reform of the House of Lords. Whichever options it goes for will be based on a dodgy premise
No way to fix the “England problem”
Creating a Parliament where elected members have differential voting rights would create an unjust “two-tier” system of MPs – and Unionists should know better
A miserable compromise and an expensive mistake
The Alternative Vote is presented as a good way to get around some of the more egregious aspects of first-past-the-post. But it isn’t, and it introduces new problems all of its own
Time for the F-Word
“A written constitution is no more than a very useful rule book.” Like grammar, argues our erudite editor, it is ever adapting







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