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The real price of legitimate expectations

April 12, 2018 by Editor

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Dr. Alex Brown draws from his recent book to discuss whether public services should always honour their promises made. In early February 2018, the British Legal Aid Agency (LAA) agreed to provide funds to the families of people killed in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing as they pursue a civil…

Scotland eyes a youthquake with online voting: here are some tips from past pilots

January 2, 2018February 15, 2018 by Admin

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One achievement for 2017, as the year comes to an end, is that it has added a new word to the English language: youthquake. The idea is that previously silent and apathetic young people have awoken to exert their democratic influence on the electoral process. Despite a 401% increase in…

Brexit could kill the precautionary principle – here’s why it matters so much for our environment

November 23, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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The world is witnessing an increase in the number and severity of hurricanes, droughts, floods and famines. A significant part of this is attributable to the temperature rises and disruption to the weather systems that human industrial activity has triggered. Yet at this very moment, when the world needs new…

What’s in store for the Precautionary Principle?

November 21, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Right now, the fate of the EU’s environmental principles in this country after Brexit is being debated by the House of Commons. Rupert Read sets out the prospects for the retention of the Precautionary Principle after Brexit. The current state of play The EU Withdrawal Bill is currently being debated…

Legitimate expectations

November 10, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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'Should governments do what they said they were going to do? Let's suppose you're the head of a secondary school and you apply to the government for some funding for a major rebuilding project. The education minister writes saying you will get the money. So you call in the bulldozers…

EU referendum: one year on – the member states

July 3, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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How is Brexit seen in other national capitals a year after the referendum? UEA's Hussein Kassim offers his analysis. Despite the UK’s well-earned reputation as an “awkward partner”, none of the member states wanted to see it leave the EU. They have been perennially puzzled by the UK’s domestic debate…

Running elections: it’s an expensive job, and cash-strapped local authorities have to do it

June 15, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Local authorities are responsible for running elections. But do they have enough money to do the job properly? Toby S James and Tyrone Jervier say the introduction of individual voter registration has made it much more expensive to compile the register. Authorities whose budgets have been cut are less likely…

Theresa May’s “enough is enough” speech – a thinly veiled call for assimilation which undermines the British values she praises

June 5, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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In her speech on responding to recent terrorist attacks, following the London Bridge attack on 3 June, the Prime Minister framed the threat posed by Islamist terrorism as one coming from outside the UK, by linking this threat to current military operations in Iraq and Syria and by invoking the…

The Final Straight

June 5, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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A short note on how and why my election forecasts differ from current polls Some polls suggest GE2017 will be close. Others, not so much. My forecast continues to suggest that the Conservatives will finish with a healthy lead in vote share, and a large majority. I thought it helpful…

Do Brexit and Trump show that we’re living in a computer simulation?

March 14, 2017February 15, 2018 by Editor

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Michael Frazer, from the University of East Anglia considers whether the world is just an illusion after all. Recent political events have turned the world upside down. The UK voting for Brexit and the US electing Donald Trump as president were unthinkable 18 months ago. In fact, they’re so extraordinary…

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