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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 January 2024 English
1st January 2024 The current parliament must end, by automatic operation of law, before the end of this year. By reason of the Parliament Acts the parliament elected in December …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 December 2023 English
2024 will be a test for the very notion of legitimacy at the basis of the United States constitution * The last post over at my Substack was fairly UK-centric …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 November 2023 English
16th November 2023 Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down its appeal judgment in the Rwanda policy case. For an informed view on the case, it is worth taking the time …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 November 2023 English
10th November 2023 Even if the United Kingdom government wins on the lawfulness of the policy, it has already lost in respect of procedure * Those interested in day-to-day politics …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 September 2023 English
8th September 2023 On this anniversary of Elizabeth II’s death, we are still in the legislative session commenced with the Queen’s Speech of May 2022 – one monarch and two …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 August 2023 English
24th August 2023 One conceit of many liberal constitutionalists is that they have a monopoly on constitutionalism: that is the notion that constitutional rights and structures are fundamental to political …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 August 2023 English
15th August 2023 There is an old Hebrew proverb which can be roughly translated as: What is the difference between a wise person and a clever person? A clever person …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 August 2023 English
8th August 2023 (Picture credit.) * The former president of the United States is facing serious legal trouble, with a serious criminal indictment which takes seriously his role in the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 July 2023 English
19th July 2023 (This post is a long excerpt from a fuller post at the Empty City substack for paying subscribers.) * This post is about the border poll that …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 July 2023 English
3rd July 2023 Over on Twitter, the estimable Dr Cath Haddon is live-tweeting a talk from a former cabinet minister to the Institute of Government: Here is an idea for …