by Ira Straus Chair, Center for War-Peace Studies 20th September 2019 The answer, in simplified form, is yes. Parliament can stop it. The bigger question is, “Will it be stopped?” The deed is not easy and the time for it is short. “The coup” means here, the Government’s efforts at [...]
A two-tiered, multi-stage, evolving coup, presently getting punctuated Coups d’etat are never just brief overturns. They are prepared over a period of time, punctuated usually by a coup de grace at the end. Even military coups can gestate for months or years. Non-military coups are implemented as well as gestated [...]
8th October 2019 Joint event with Federal Union and Global Policy Institute SPEAKERS: Dr Denis MacShane, former MP and UK Minister for Europe Dr Andrew Blick, Reader in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London Respondent: Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust Extract from Dr Denis MacShane's talk:Johnson may [...]
Prorogation is only a cap on it by Ira Straus Chair, Center for War-Peace Studies 4th September 2019 The prorogation is not an ordinary coup, but it is indeed a part of a coup d’etat. It is not a quick-topple coup in the classic mold, but a multi-year process, growing [...]
by Ira Straus Chair, Centre for War-Peace Studies 30th July 2019 Rational and Irrational Fears in the Brexit DebateFreud Papers, Part III 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
