Article 50 and the dictatorship of the “democratic” majority
British voters wishing to remain in the Union or to leave only on consensual terms are deprived of any effective Parliamentary representation whatsoever.
British voters wishing to remain in the Union or to leave only on consensual terms are deprived of any effective Parliamentary representation whatsoever.
The Union’s critics like to compare it to the Soviet Union. But there is more than an echo of Lenin’s “democratic centralism” in what Mrs May is now proposing.
The Burkini ban was another case of oppressing women in the name of their liberation.
8 May 2016: Turkish president pressures EU for visa exemptions to Turkish citizens.
7 May 2016: Labour’s Sadiq Khan beats Conservative rival to become London’s first Muslim mayor.
20 February 2016: The Golden Bear of Berlinale 2016 goes to Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea)…
27 December 2015: The final weeks of 2015 saw remarkable activity at the global level producing concrete results, for a change.
Angus Deaton, on 12 October 2015, received the so-called Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, which is in reality the Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Prize for his work on consumption. He is an economist from Edinburgh and professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. He will be 70 years old next week. Deaton’s main research focuses on the determinants of health in rich and poor countries as well as the measurement of poverty.