The announcement of the unique devolution deal for the city represents the opening of a major new front in the English devolution debate, and a model that other areas will certainly want to follow.
The time is right for Assemblies in the regions of the North of England.
The leading Scottish economist stood up to Thatcher over advertising on the BBC, but died a month before the referendum. What would he have thought?
The Houses of Parliament discussed the aftermath of the Scottish referendum this week. This is the speech Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards planned to make, had he been called. He calls for radical and creative thinking around the UK constitution.
There is a simple solution to the constitutional chaos in the UK: an English parliament.
The Irish Constitutional Convention of 2013-14 provides some useful lessons for the UK.
While questions surrounding constitutional reforms for England have already disrupted Labour's progress in the wake of Scotland's vote, the Tories should be 'more cautious and thoughtful than populist and gung-ho' on this thorny issue.
Any party that keeps wondering whether the ‘English question’ really needs to be asked will find itself shut out of the conversation. Instead they should make it clear that they want to find an answer.
Increasing English identification over Britishness poses a number of potential problems that need addressing, not least where it leaves England's ethnic minorities who tend to favour Britishness over Englishness.
Constitutional reform must be an evolutionary process, not a rush job imposed from above for party political reasons.
The UK needs a framework for federalisation. Here's one suggestion for how this could work.
Historian Linda Colley rejects the idea that British disintegration is inevitable but says a new constitutional settlement is needed to bind the nations and people of the United Kingdom together, and to help clarify its relationship with Europe. The English, she argues, would benefit from having a
