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Opinion: Britain needs to clean up its politics by reforming Whitehall and Westminster

01 Feb 2024

Prof David Howarth, a commissioner on the UK Governance Project, outlines proposals that seek to fix defects in our political system increasingly...

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Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 receives fuel

Syria airstrikes add another ‘exception’ to beleaguered parliamentary convention, say experts

30 Apr 2018

A new book launching in Cambridge today explores the parliamentary convention intended to allow MPs a vote on military action. The authors say that...

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Opinion: Parliament and Brexit

30 Jun 2017

The general election result increases leverage for Parliament when it comes to Brexit. Here, Baroness Smith of Newnham, a lecturer in the Department...

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Darwin Lecture Series

Opinion: Being society's critic & conscience

06 Jan 2017

Universities are about more than research and teaching, they should also act as society’s critic and conscience, says Graham Virgo, Pro-vice-...

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Albert Venn Dicey in academic robes

The (Victorian) case for a referendum on independence

18 Dec 2013

As the referendum on Scottish independence approaches in 2014, new research shows how a founding father of constitutional law in the United Kingdom...

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How the Westminster parliamentary system was exported around the world

02 Dec 2013

As an expert in constitutional law, Sir Ivor Jennings played a pivotal role in the establishment of states emerging from British rule in the mid-20th...

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After landing at San Carlos, a heavily laden paratrooper of 2 Parachute Regiment heads south for Sussex Mountain on 21 May 1982. From there the Battalion attacked Goose Green.

Thatcher Archive reveals deep divisions on the road to Falklands War

22 Mar 2013

The Falklands War – the conflict that defined much of Margaret Thatcher’s political career and legacy – dominates the release of her personal papers...

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