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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 July 2023 English
1st July 2023 * The overlooked obstacle to the United Kingdom withdrawing from the ECHR * From time to time the demand comes from a government minister, or from one …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 June 2023 English
19th June 2023 In December 2019, Boris Johnson had the greatest prize that our constitutional arrangements could bestow. He had led his party to a substantial majority at a general …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 June 2023 English
14th June 2023 Here is a story about law-making told in different ways. The law in question is a statutory instrument made under the Public Order Act 1986 – the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 June 2023 English
10 June 2023 The silence now seems significant: we should have realised something was up. Earlier this week former Prime Minister Boris Johnson received the draft report of the Privileges …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 June 2023 English
2nd June 2023 The government of the United Kingdom has commenced a legal challenge to the recently established Covid Inquiry – an inquiry that this government had itself established. In …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 May 2023 English
24th May 2023 (This is the first in a planned series of posts on the Covid Inquiry – the next will be on Boris Johnson’s lawyer difficulty.) * Today the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 May 2023 English
23rd May 2023 Today in parliament, during a debate on an urgent question related to the conduct of the current Home Secretary, a backbencher asked a striking and thought-provoking question: …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 May 2023 English
15th May 2023 Last week there was a newspaper article under the names of two cabinet ministers.The piece was a warning to the House of Lords about the government’s illegal …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 May 2023 English
5th May 2023 Here is a remarkable, and as this post will contend misconceived and historically illiterate, take on the coronation: And here is a similarly misconceived message: Our tolerance …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 April 2023 English
26th April 2023 The news about the royals and hacking, well summarised and analysed by Joshua Rozenberg at his Substack, brings us back to the start of a circle. For …