Chile’s new constitution

In Chile, they are developing a new constitution; they have used citizen’s assemblies to develop the constitution. They will vote on it later this year. Here is a guide on the draft, in Spanish and in English, by Google translate. I know! Legal documents shouldn’t be translated.

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UN Periodic Review

The United Nations conducts a quinquennial review of its member states compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Who knew?

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Labour in for Britain

While in Berlin, I saw a post bitching about Corbyn and Starmer’s contribution to Brexit, and remembered that Labour’s RemaIN campaign run by the then legacy leadership was also weak. I know that the doorstep operation was weakened by the lack of commitment of the party and the exhaustion from the local elections that had…

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Tanks

I needed to extract what I said about Tanks from my piece on the 2021 Defence White Paper as it took a lot of space on a peripheral issue. What I captured was the leaks before publication which suggested that the Tanks were going to be chopped, and then comments on the white paper’s outcome….

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Chasing Financial Crime

I am working up another article on Corruption and had cause to look at how the private sector is pursued. The answer is by public sector bodies who produce reports on how effective they are. Here are my links and notes.

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EUMANS in Warsaw.

EUMANS held a conference to co-incide with the COFOE plenary 4. Some of the CTOE members spoke at the conference. Here are my notes and links.

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Bought Britain

Originally subtitled, evidence of Russia’s receipts. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reminded every one of the way in  which British Politics has been sold. Sanctions were applied slowly and incompletely.  We are out of the EU.  Here are my notes and links

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Global Compact on Immigration

Look what happens when one’s not concentrating, the UN promulgated a global compact on migration, which passed overwhelmingly and then caused a backlash in the political classes in Europe. Here are my notes and links …

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Ukraine and its role as a flashpoint

Over the last month, Russia and NATO have been rattling their sabres over the future of the Ukraine. The bellicosity of the language is very worrying and working out a position from first principles of peace, democracy, human rights and justice seems quite hard; I have made some notes and found some links to help…

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A British Bill of Rights

The Govt. are finally consulting on the Human Rights Act. The closing date is 8th March 2022 11:59. Here are my notes The first page or two detail the questions from the consultation, you can skip them by clicking here. …

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