
Graham Gudgin: Now is the time to combat Scottish Nationalism
Throwing money around will not help. A natonal effort is needed to show that the UK is a force for good in a troubled world.
Throwing money around will not help. A natonal effort is needed to show that the UK is a force for good in a troubled world.
That Johnson’s recent visit was reported as though he were a Governor-General of Imperial India touring the North-West frontier is a bad sign.
Localism gives a nod to our wonderfully diverse culture and traditions, and encourages faster solutions to problems.
‘Abolish’ are exerting UKIP-style pressure as Paul Davies turns his guns on “cronies and hangers-on in civic society”: the devocracy.
It is remarkable that even after SNP MPs admitted that they needed to stop us leaving to salvage their project, this self-serving myth endures.
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The May Government set a time-bomb under the Union when it agreed to the mass devolution of ex-EU powers. Ministers must think again.
Four decades on, history seems likely to vindicate those who warned that devolution would undermine the United Kingdom.
At the Centre for Policy Studies, we’ve teamed up with Sajid Javid to come up with a comprehensive set of ideas for tackling the challenges ahead.
The proposition is backed by more than a third of those prepared to say how they’d vote – including an overwhelming majority of Tories.
The Party is keen to keep a lid on the issue ahead of next year’s Welsh elections, but disaffected activists and challenger parties are putting it on the agenda.
Ahead of next year’s elections, we have to show our sceptical voters that we’re not just another horse on the Cardiff Bay carousel.
I won’t let fears of being branded ‘anti-devolution’ stop me calling out Drakeford’s deeply counterproductive conduct.
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The unique circumstances of the pandemic temporarily forged a common response, but cracks are already appearing and will only deepen.