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Cameron’s insistence on binding Britain to the OECD has undermined not just May’s vision for overseas development, but his own.
Shorter sitting hours, time-limited speeches, and procedural changes have all made the Commons less effective. If Bercow wants to fix it he should start there.
Also: Scottish Tories offer to mediate with Holyrood as devolved governments try to block the Withdrawal Bill; and a loyalist paramilitary group bids to be legalised.
The Government is seeking recognition of its working majority in the Commons – and can only prevail if that majority exists.
Without America’s clear split between elite institutions and public service providers, vice-chancellors are caught between very different sets of expectations.
The Opposition are hoping that everybody will have forgotten about it by 2022.
As long as the Party refuses to run a Tory youth organisation properly, third parties will exploit the gap and put its image at risk.
The left will strengthen their position inside Labour, but may push more voters towards the more centrist, avowedly unionist Scottish Conservatives.
A dogmatic, utopian insistence on imposing the American model wholesale often runs contrary to establishing stability, growth, and the rule of law.
The risks might seem a bit science-fiction now, but they’re real and could create strong headwinds of public scepticism against this new technology.
Lady Hale offers ministers a double-edged sword when she suggests that they play a role in senior appointments to the bench.