15 September 2016 Week in Brief: UK Foreign Affairs LIBYA: A report of the House of Commons Defence Committee has heavily criticised David Cameron’s role in the 2011 bombing campaign in Libya. Stating that the then Chief of Defence Staff, Lord Richards, disassociated himself from the claim that the operation was in the national interest,… Continue reading Issue 71: 2016 09 15: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Power To The People?
24 September 2015 Power To The People? Keeping the role of politicians in context. By John Watson Many of those who in the 1960s demonstrated in the streets crying “Power to the People” would have found it difficult to explain what they meant by it. After all, then as now, we lived in a parliamentary… Continue reading Issue 21: 2015 09 24: Power To The People?