The recent elections to the City of London’s local authority were fiercely fought, after years where the majority of seats went uncontested. Lessons should be drawn for any future attempt to reform the financial services industry.
In March, elections to the City of London Corporation take place. They could be used to challenge the unaccountable power wielded by this state-within-a-state.
There has always been a tension between the social democratic and the economically liberal traditions within the Lib Dems. To regard the party a straightforwardly left-of-centre is a mistake.
In ‘Negotiated Constitutionalism’ Stuart Weir praised Keith Ewing’s contribution to the debate on the future of liberty in the UK. He rightly concludes that Ewing’s account of the
Day one of the trial of Radovan Karadzic and the defendant refuses to appear. Daniel Jones asks what this means for justice for the former Yugoslavia and considers the cost of allowing high profile defendants to represent themselves
