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Not as white as they are painted

Robert  Henderson Those of us who do not share the liberal’s ostensible love of the multicultural mess they have made of modern Britain  will be gratified to hear that  the latest communal outbreak of the Joy of Diversity has brought  … Continue reading

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What has happened to “English votes for English laws”?

The obvious democratic imbalance in the post-devolution settlement is the absence of an English parliament. The Scots, Welsh and the Northern Irish have devolved assemblies which are steadily increasing their formal powers and political permanence through the development of a … Continue reading

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The democratic spirit and the English civil war, Commonwealth and Protectorate

Stuart  society  was a world on the  physical,  economic  and  intellectual  move  and waiting to move faster if  the  right  engine  appeared.  The civil wars of the  1640s was  that  machine. Representative  government  is  one  thing,  democracy  quite  another. That … Continue reading

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