Brexit

March 4, 2020|Brexit, Douglas Murray, Harry Miller, Miller v. College of Policing & Anor, trans rights

The Great Trans Rights Post-Brexit Looniness

Former police officer Harry Miller arrives outside the High Court, London, on Friday, February 14, 2020 ahead of a ruling on the landmark challenge to police guidance on hate incidents against transgender people. (Victoria Jones/PA Wire URN:50324826/Press Association via AP Images).

There is a foot-stamping petulance to the phrases “trans rights are human rights” and “trans women are women,” as though saying either makes it so.

February 17, 2020|Anglosphere, Brexit

Getting Real About the Anglosphere

by Samuel Gregg|

Union Jack in front of the Houses of Parliament. (Shutterstock.com)

One Brexit effect is that the nation from which the Anglosphere ultimately derives is reassessing many of its most important relationships.

January 14, 2020|Brexit, Direct Democracy, Proposition 13, referendum

Giving Direct Democracy a Chance

by G. Alan Tarr|

Protest in Central London on January 15, 2019 (Ink Drop/Shutterstock.com).

John Matsusaka contends that the challenge of democratic populism can only be met with more democracy.

December 30, 2019|Benjamin Disraeli, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party

One Nation or Bust!

by Helen Dale|

No 10 Downing Street (Gov.UK)

The Conservative Party’s immense election victory means it must bind up the wounds the referendum and subsequent polarisation opened in the body politic.

December 11, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, English Constitution, Fixed Term Parliaments Act, Westminster System

Constitutional Change Made Easy, UK Edition

by Abram N. Shulsky|

(Photo by Melinda Nagy, Shutterstock.com)

Did the flexibility of the UK's unwritten constitution facilitate changes that have made governing almost impossible?

December 9, 2019|Brexit, Charles de Gaulle, European Union

De Gaulle’s Alternative for Europe

by Samuel Gregg|

EU flags in front of the Berlaymont Building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium (Image: jorisvo/shutterstock.com).

Attempts to distance peoples completely from their national cultures were bound to produce unpredictable consequences.

October 28, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, English Constitution, European Union

Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

by Helen Dale|

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks up as he meets with fundraisers for the Royal British Legion outside 10 Downing street on October 28, 2019. (Photo by ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

October 1, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, Prorogation, Royal Prerogative, UK Supreme Court

British Politics Gets a SCOTUS

by Helen Dale|

The Supreme Court LONDON, ENGLAND (4kclips at shutterstock.com)

Parliament is the only body with the legitimacy to settle Brexit and restore a functional relationship between the political class and the electors.

September 26, 2019|Brexit, prorogue, UK Supreme Court

Democracy Falters and the Court Remains

by Titus Techera|

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson is driven past demonstrators on his way to the Houses of Parliament on September 25, 2019 in London, England (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images).

It is up to the people of Britain to reassert their democratic right to elect their representatives and thus consent to government.

September 13, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, Brexit Party, Fixed Term Parliaments Act, Jeremy Corbyn, John Bercow, Nigel Farage, Queen's Consent

Hell Is Fighting Brexit for All Eternity

by Helen Dale|

Anti-Brexit protest in London(Photo by Gina Power, shutterstock.com)

Britain is no longer in a constitutional crisis, it's in a constitutional swamp.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.