Tag: Gerry Hassan
Democratic round-up: the Salmond/Darling Scottish independence debate
Last night, the First Minister of Scotland, the Scottish National Party’s Alex Salmond went head-to-head with the Better Together campaign’s Chairman, and the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling. Here, Democratic Audit’s Sean Kippin rounds up the response from the blogosphere, academia, and our esteemed newspaper columnists. Similar Posts20 things we learned about […]
A new UK federalist settlement may sound like an attractive idea, but it isn’t the answer to our democratic malaise
The notion of a federal solution to the UK’s current constitutional imbalances, and as a possible alternative to outright Scottish separation has recent entered the political agenda, with Gordon Brown and David Marquand in particular putting the case. Here, Gerry Hassan says that while it sounds like an intuitively attractive proposition, federalism ignores the question of […]
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