Constitution
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Brexit and the British Constitution: Reflections on the Last Three years and the Next Fifty
The decision to leave the EU provoked the biggest constitutional crisis of recent British history. The response of politicians risks irreparable damage to the political culture that underpins democracy.
- Constitution
- Brexit
- Courts
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Brexit and the Nations
The central promise of the Brexit campaign was to ‘take back control’—to restore British sovereignty. This morphed into the sovereignty of the British people, but both notions suggest that sovereignty is to be located in one place: Westminster.
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
- Brexit
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Regional Government Isn't the Answer to the UK's Constitutional Unsettlement
Challenging attempts to address the problem of asymmetry through a system of regional government in England.
- Devolution
- Constitution
- Brexit
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Britain Needs a Written Constitution – And Can't Wait for Parliament to Write One
Confronting the constitutional challenges Britain will face once it reasserts its political independence from the EU.
- Constitution
- Parliament
- Brexit
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- Constitution
- Parliament
- Media
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The Democratic Duty to Oppose Brexit
What should be the position of democrats in response to the Brexit referendum? Many urge a duty to accept the result. This article argues the contrary.
- Constitution
- Parliament
- Brexit
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Breaking the Constitutional Silence
Reforming the outsourcing sector is only a first step to a more general reconsideration of the place of the corporation in our constitution.
- Constitution
- Trade
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On the Retreat and Self-Erosion of Democracy
Since Francis Fukuyama prophesised in 1989 the ‘end of history’ and a global convergence towards liberal market democracy as the final form of human government, democratic rule has been in retreat.
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
- Populism
