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A decade of 3LE – still (just about) keeping the faith…

Sep 8, 2018David MarlowBREXIT, City Strategy, Devolution, EU Referendum, has it really come to this?, Leadership, Local Growth, Public Services Reform, regional economy, Trumpcity strategy, devolution, Leadership, UK failing state

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Proud to betray the Daily Mail’s “will of the people”

Jun 17, 2018David Marlow2 CommentsBREXIT, EU Referendum, political integrityBrexit, EU, political integrity, UK failing state

On the second anniversary of the UK’s greatest day of shame, I shall be doing something I haven’t done for decades – taking part in a political march to Parliament. That I am joining the “March for a People’s Vote” is a far from perfect representation of my views on Brexit. For one thing, if

GE2017 – Democratic renewal or a further indicator of the UK failing state?

Jun 16, 2017adminBREXIT, EU Referendum, General election 2017democracy, Leadership, UK failing state

The terminal decline of representative democracy has been a theme of this blog for a couple of years. Does the 2017 General Election (GE2017) and its unfolding aftermath change this at all? On the face of it, voters have managed to give a considerable rebuff to an arrogant Governing party who had wilfully misinterpreted a