Category - Democracy & constitution
A Question for the Cabinet Office on Investigations
Retention of EU Law – A Pointless Argument
50 Years of dithering about Europe
Why Government is Failing
Is Civil Service Reform Overdue?
Identity politics and impartiality are not compatible
Swexit
It’s time to give Scotland and Wales a dose of financial reality and rethink the Barnett formula
Why Remainers are the UK’s answer to the Capitol rioters
Regulating Future UK Referendums
The Fantasy Economics behind the case for Scottish independence
The Demise of a Catalan Fairy Tale: a Democratic EU
How the Civil Service has coped with Brexit
Baroness Fox in support of the Internal Market Bill
The Internal Market Bill and International Law
If Scotland is to leave the UK, a majority of Scots needs to approve
We really must change the Irish Protocol
Submission to NI Affairs Committee Inquiry Brexit and the NI Protocol
Why UK law must prevail over the EU Withdrawal Agreement
Playing Politics with the Protocol
Why is the civil service failing?
Beware the Witching Hour! Responses to the ISC’s “Russia Report”
Are the Russians to Blame for Brexit?
We Need to Up Our Game on Aid
The imperial court across the sea: why those on the left, who long to re-join the EU, will be conveniently ignoring the Court of Justice
To survive Labour must now drop its attachments to the EU and electoral reform
Jeremy Corbyn and national security
What Price Democracy Now?
Bring down the curtain: La commedia è finita
The British MPs behaving like the Hong Kong Executive
The Legitimacy of Referendums: Why Edmund Burke won’t rescue Remain
A Delinquent Parliament Begets the Rule of Lawyers
Supreme Court: on Shaky Ground
Supreme Court against the people
The Supreme Court Judgment: a Very British Coup?
Remainer MPs are doing incalculable damage to democracy
Sovereignty: people, parliament, government
What Makes Die-Hard Remainers Tick?
How dare Remainers say Boris is undemocratic
#StoptheNostalgicFantasy
Proponents of the new Backbench Bill to stop No Deal face a significant dilemma over Queen’s Consent
Lies, Lies and Those Damned Brexit Statistics
Can They Block Brexit? Law v. Convention
Damaging Democracy
Is the Civil Service Impartial?
Parliament has no sovereignty higher than a popular mandate
Europe cannot escape nationalism
Why does the Establishment get it wrong?
Brexit: leading the way to a Europe of nations
A Modest Proposal to limit the danger of democracy
Prorogation: The Historical Case for Constitutional Innovation
In the marginals, it’s the Leavers who are in revolt
Brexit, Accountability and Reform
A Second Referendum: Unfair, Dishonest and Undemocratic
A Second Referendum: Misleading Claims and False Temptations
Interregnum
Overturning the Referendum?
What price democracy?
The People versus Parliament
The British Road to Dirty War
No Democracy please, we’re British
A Second Referendum: just what the wreckers want
Why sovereignty matters for national unity: a warning
Prof. Tombs warns demands for a People’s Vote are inflaming tensions, taking populism to a new low
Factcheck: What will really happen if MPs vote down May’s deal?
Brexit in Name Only: Causes and Consequences
Yes to a Brexit Deal. No to a Second Referendum.
Seven reasons why another Brexit referendum is a bad idea
No compromise now over democracy By Richard Tuck
Why the ‘People’s Vote’ is a Bad Idea
Would a Second Referendum disrespect the First?
Meaningful votes and the fight for the default option
Reflections on the People’s Vote campaign for a second referendum
Restoring Parliamentary Democracy
Restoring Parliamentary Democracy
Parliament’s Role in Brexit: Vital but Bounded
The Ethics of a Second Brexit Referendum