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The British constitution has long been admired around the world for stability and consensus. Forged in the civil wars across the three kingdoms in the seventeenth century, it has often been presented as an effective balance between executive and legislative power. Originally the instrument of oligarchy, it gradually adapted to…
French president Emmanuel Macron recently spoke out against Turkey exploring for natural gas in waters claimed by Cyprus, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish leader, was quick to rebuke him: “We are one of the guarantor countries in Cyprus. Greece and the United Kingdom are also the guarantor countries. What…
The central promise of Brexit was to ‘take back control’ or, in more technical language, regain sovereignty. Initially, this was expressed as the sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament but, after the referendum, this changed to the sovereignty of the ‘the British people’. Either way, membership of the EU was seen…
