by Brendan DonnellyDirector, The Federal Trust 30th July 2019 It was a disappointment to many that the Labour Party and those Conservative MPs opposed to a “no deal” Brexit did so little last week to oppose the installation of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. The summer recess will, however, allow [...]
By Sigismundis Freud Note: These pages come from the Freud Papers. They were discovered on the desk of Sigismundis Freud by Ira Straus, who has leaked them to the Federal Trust. We note with concern Dr. Freud’s characteristic infractions against political and religious correctness, but publish his words as written. [...]
by Professor Sam WhimsterAssociate Director and Head of UK Futures Programme, Global Policy Institute 22nd July 2019 This is a commentary in response to the blog by our Senior Research Fellow Dr Andrew Blick: Brexit - By Royal Appointment?, published on 12th July 2019 Andrew Blick in "Brexit - By [...]
17th September 2019 Speakers: Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMGFormer British Ambassador in Moscow (1988 - 1992); Author of "Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down"; "Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War" and "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89" Mary DejevksyWriter and Broadcaster; former foreign correspondent in [...]
by Brendan DonnellyDirector, The Federal Trust 9th July 2019 Much justified criticism has been heaped upon Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt for the unrealistic European policies they have promised the Conservative membership in the current leadership contest. It is not however always sufficiently understood how necessary such unrealistic promises are [...]
The Challenge of Populism to Representative and Federal Democracy 11th July 2019 A Global Policy Institute seminar sponsored by the Federal Trust and Max Weber Studies journal and hosted by Coventry University London. Programme: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute:Populism and the role of digital media Dr Marzia Maccaferri, Goldsmiths, [...]
Theresa May's final days as Prime Minister Dr Freud’s prognosis from her therapy by Ira Straus Chair, Centre for War-Peace Studies 21st June 2019 These notes were found lying on the desk of Dr Freud on 14 June 2019. In light of their public importance, they are being made available [...]
by Dr Andrew BlickSenior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London; Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust 13th June 2019 By the end of July, at the latest, the Conservative Party will have a new leader. That person, it is widely assumed, will also be the Prime [...]
Eulogy of Robert Emerson (1929 - 2019) Federal Trust Council member 1994 - 2019 Robert was born in Lausanne, Switzerland on the 27th July 1929 to a Dublin native, Olive Thompson and a Uruguayan born Englishman Ambrose “Dick” Emerson. The youngest of 5 siblings, his immediate older sister died just [...]
by Ira StrausChair, Centre for War-Peace Studies 5th June 2019 1. In Europe The center of gravity in the new European Parliament (EP) is, overall, in the same center-right and pro-EU space it inhabited before. However, it has significantly changed its emphasis in two specific areas: an enlarged cohort seeking [...]
