A year away from the Scottish referendum, we have opinion polls almost weekly, as the media tries to discern the rise and fall in the standings of the rival teams. Yet the most striking fact is the stability in public opinion. For the past 20 years, support for independence has been around 30% and all the argument over the past two years appears to have made little difference.
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Austerity: A Fracturing Consensus?
Political economist Hugo Radice is a Life Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty on the decline in confidence in the coalition’s economic policy.
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UK Migration Policy: We Need to Talk About Citizens
The family rules introduced by the UK government as part of its crusade to curb net migration are surreptitiously redefining the meaning of citizenship and the boundaries between the state and its subjects, says Nando Sigona.
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Do We Need a British Bill of Rights?
The recent report on replacing the Human Rights Act with a bill of rights reveals the confused and flawed arguments at the root of the proposition.
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Secret Courts Offer No Justice
The British Parliament should reject proposals to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. The House of…