Government & Parliament
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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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The New ‘Ten Year Rule’ and the Defence ‘Commentariat’
Only time will tell whether the government and/or the ‘commentariat’ will be found out.
- Conservative Party
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
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The Commons Select Committee System in the 2015–2020 Parliament
Why the House of Commons select committees witnessed some of the most constructive political theatre of the 2010-2015 Parliament
- Elections & Campaigning
- Parliament
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Hurry or you Will Lose: David Cameron and the Brexit Referendum
No wonder David Cameron is in a hurry to hold the EU referendum. If he waits until next year he will lose the vote.
- Conservative Party
- Brexit
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The Mould Broken
The mould has finally broken. Politics in Britain can no longer be fitted into its traditional shape.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Devolution
- Scotland
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The Problem at No 10
Ever since George Osborne’s catastrophe-strewn budget in the spring, Cameron has looked like a man pulled apart by events, not in charge of them.
- Conservative Party
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Osborne v. Growth: The Chancellor and the New Green Economy
The most telling comment on last week’s Budget came from the Government’s very own Office for Budget Responsibility, which acknowledged that the Chancellor’s measures would have no impact on growth.
- Environment & Climate Change
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Whitehall at War?
The recent exposure of serious tensions between ministers and civil servants has once again highlighted this most sensitive of constitutional relationships.
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Parliament
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Ed Miliband's Bravura Performance was the First Manifestation of Post-Olympic Politics
Ed Miliband's bravura performance at the Labour Party's Conference was the first manifestation of post-Olympics politics.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
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The Anglo-Irish Agreement: 25 Years On (2011)
On the surprisingly muted commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
- Ireland
