Devolution event axed 'due to lack of interest' - Scotsman.com News
THE commission set up to look at the future of devolution in Scotland has had to cancel its first public event due to lack of interest, critics have claimed.
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CentreRight: Britishness and culture
I have to disagree with Andrew Lilico's view that there is no British culture and that there is no such thing as nationalism and self-determination.
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David Eyles: Why the Magna Carta still matters - the history (Part I of II)
The Magna Carta has been cited several times in recent months, not least by David Davis in his resignation speech on the steps of the House of Commons. The media response to his speech and the resulting by-election was almost one of puzzlement and in many cases, dismissal.
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Paul Kingsnorth: The progressive case for an English parliament | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Support for an English parliament is growing, and not just among rightwing loons: it's time the left saw the benefits, too
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CEP: September rallies for England against the indifference of our 550 English MPs - politics.co.uk
On September 6th there will be an open air rally and leafleting in the market place, Marygate,Berwick. From September 13th to the 15th the CEP will have a stall at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, on September 20-21st CEP members will be leafleting delegates to the Labour Party in the city centre, in Albert Square and St. Peter's Square, Manchester and on October 1st they will be having a stall at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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UK Olympic football team « View from North Britain
If Gordon Brown is really serious about a UK Olympic football team, I suggest the Home Nations play off for the right to represent the UK.
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Feature: The unbearable lightness of being English by Kapka Kassabova | New Zealand Listener
This year, a record 191,000 people migrated from Britain - many to live in New Zealand, where they now form the biggest immigrant group; 25% of our incoming migrants. So, is it the "English disease" that they are escaping from?
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Lucy Locket's little secret ... The Guardian
Most of us can still recite the words to nursery rhymes we learned as children, but how many know the real meanings behind our most familiar verses? Albert Jack reveals some hidden histories of cannons, courtesans and vengeful queens
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Terry Pratchett writes for the News of the World | News | News Of The World
In Scotland Alzheimer’s sufferers with the mild form of the disease can actually get the drugs and I think that’s a lovely way to run a health service. There is a two-tier NHS, in fact —the Scottish one and the English one. More on that later.
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Cranmer: Team GB? What of Northern Ireland?
According to Reuters, the Prime Minister is hailing the most excellent performance of the UK in the Olympics. He is, of course, doing no such thing. The UK does not feature as a nation in any Olympics literature or performance table, being referred to only as Great Britain or ‘Team GB’.
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Iain Macwhirter: In the Glenrothes byelection, Brown's future is at stake | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Glenrothes is an old-style Labour constituency with SNP aspirations, which is why Gordon Brown's future is at stake in the byelection there
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Albion Magazine: Spotlight on Paul Kingsnorth and Real England
The Union is unbalanced and unfair, and if the politicians who run it can't sort this injustice out soon, the Union may well break apart within the next ten years. If it does it could, in my view, be a good thing; all the nations within it would have to think hard about who they are and why they exist. England, because it has dominated the Union, has avoided doing this for decades. I think it would be very good for us.
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Paul Kingsnorth: Gordon Brown is writing a new book on his favourite subject - 'Britishness' | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
About the only coherent theme to Brown's tenure in the job so far has been Britishness: it helps explain to an increasingly disgruntled middle England that this heavily Scottish government is on their side. After all, we're all British, right? We all share the same '"values".
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David Clarke on why Westminister needs PR | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Scotland and the union: Geoffrey Wheatcroft misdiagnoses the problem and comes up with the wrong prescription
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For Whom Would Independence Be A Catastrophe (from The Herald )
No Scottish nationalist is trying to create a nation out of another nation: our nation already exists. All we are trying to do is to create - or, technically, recreate - a state to go with a currently stateless nation. This is not the work of rogues. What Scottish nationalists wish to end is nothing to do with England or Englishness. What they wish to end is the British state.
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Labour's Scotland problems will soon become English
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