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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 · 7 September 2023 English
7th September 2023 Birmingham has more canals then Venice and more hills than Rome – you will be told – and it has the largest local authority in Europe and …
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 · 21 August 2023 English
21st August 2023 (Source) * The court system is inherently about performance: about justice being seen to be done. And the legal system, more generally, is inherently about coercion: about …
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 · 2 August 2023 English
2nd August 2023 A future historian, tasked with working out from contemporaneous sources what ‘witch-hunt’ meant in 2023, would conclude it meant a slow methodical and evidence-based process, with full …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 July 2023 English
31st July 2023 The leader of the opposition is a former litigator, and many litigators have a certain strategy – or at least a set of tactics: a certain cautious …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 July 2023 English
26th July 2023 * Much – most – of the commentary about what Elon Musk is doing with the social media platform previously known as Twitter focuses on his personal …
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 …