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The Future of the United Kingdom is Based on Devolution
14th October 2014
- Graham Allen MP
The fantastic democratic adventure in Scotland has given us a real opportunity to reform our system of government and to shape the future of the United Kingdom so that it is founded on the principles of union and devolution, rather than on massive over-centralisation.
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Can we own how devolution affects our area?
14th October 2014
Sometimes I get very frustrated by the BBC. Like when it puts rugby league highlights on at 1pm on a Tuesday. Or 3am on a Wednesday. But it’s hard to ignore, hard to get away from.
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The legacy of the Second Baldwin Government
6th October 2014
For British Conservatives, this November marks an important milestone in the history of the Conservative Party; the 90th anniversary of the election of the second Conservative administration of Stanley Baldwin. Although the Labour Party is widely acclaimed for landmarks in social policy such as the creation of the postwar Welfare State, Conservative administrations have also played a pivotal role in encouraging the social and economic development of the United Kingdom.
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Compassionate care can’t be an extra – it must be at the heart of planning for a future NHS
29th September 2014
A recurring phrase of this week’s labour party conference was that we need to make sure that all NHS staff ‘have time to care’. It is promising to see the importance of a caring environment in the NHS getting such a high profile in plans for the general election.
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Why Go to War? Because We are All Human and All Humans are Sacred
25th September 2014
On 3rd September at Westminster Abbey’s memorial to the Innocent Victims of War, representatives of the three faiths of the Book, Christians, Jews and Muslims (Sunni and Shiah) gathered beneath a banner stating “We are all Human”.
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A new democracy in a new Britain? – a view from Leeds
25th September 2014
I have been very excited by the way in which the Scottish referendum campaign engaged people in a discussion about feelings of powerlessness and how to regain democratic control over decisions about their lives made by a centralised and seemingly unaccountable London-centric elite.
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Join Me Up Scotty: Shifting from the National to the Local
17th September 2014
Over the past few decades, our friends north of the border have often experimented with various innovative policy approaches – though never before on quite such significant issues as devolution, self-determination and democracy itself – providing a testing ground for ideas which sometimes then spread more widely across the UK.
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Is journalism dead, or merely dying?
27th August 2014
Above and beyond the knotty question of how best to regulate newspapers, as well as how to preserve the freedom of the press, possibly by turning our attention to individual journalists, through some form of licensing, lurk two bigger issues.
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Destructive Ambiguity: Why European Defence needs a re-think
26th August 2014
Last week German TV programme Monitor on Das Erste ran a piece on NATO. Central to the ten minute report was my latest NATO Defence College/Wilton Park report “NATO’s Post-2014 Strategic Narrative”.
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Repositioning Islamic finance as a grassroots international business catalyst
22nd August 2014
London has raised its flag as a hub for Islamic finance. A clear signal of intent was outlined at the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), held in London towards the end of 2013, by David Cameron, Baroness Warsi, and Boris Johnson.
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