by Professor Sam Whimster Deputy Director & Head of UK Futures Programme, Global Policy Institute Have I seen this musical before? No, that is not a Hamilton moment, but the musical is based on Ron Chernow's excellent biography of one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. We used [...]
by David GowEditor of Sceptical.scot, Senior Adviser at Social Europe and Senior Adviser at Acumen Public Affairs. He is former European Business Editor of The Guardian and worked for The Scotsman and London Weekend Television. 26th May 2020 Federal Germany has won substantial plaudits around the world, not least in other parts of Europe, for its comparative [...]
by Dr Andrew BlickReader in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London; Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust 14th February 2020 Criticism of the European Union in United Kingdom (UK) political discourse has often focused upon the proposition that as a project it is federal in nature. For this [...]
by Ira Straus Chair, Center for War-Peace Studies 13th January 2020 It’s a new world in UK-EU relations. All -- Europeanists, federalists, the EU itself -- have to find their bearings in it. All have to refocus on the tasks most relevant for the future. So also do all who [...]
Preparing Humanity for coexistence with Superintelligence 2nd December 2019 Lecture and Discussion with Tony Czarnecki, presenting his forthcoming book: Democracy for Human Federation – Coexisting with Superintelligence(external link to Amazon) Respondent: David Wood, Chair of London Futurists and Co-Founder of the Transhumanist Party Videos of the presentation and the response: [...]
Federalism, Parliament, Religion and Monarchy Comparing Prorogation in the 17th Century with Prorogation in the 21st Century By Dr. Andrew Black, Digit LtdSenior Research Fellow at Global Policy Institute; Senior Research Fellow, Brunel Business School 13th September 2019 “You mean they actually vote for the lizards?""Oh yes," said Ford with a [...]
30th September 2019 March 2016 saw Myanmar’s first democratically elected government to take office since 1962, though under a constitution that gives veto powers to non-elected representatives. Before it took office the National League for Democracy (NLD) set out a new direction for the country, stating that it would ‘strive [...]
Devolution, federalism and the United Kingdom Constitution: Lessons and implications of the Brexit process by Dr Andrew Blick June 2018 About the author Dr Andrew Blick is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust Download the paper [...]
On Governing Europe: A Federal Experiment 30th April 2018 In his latest book, Andrew Duff describes how the EU was born at a time when federalism was seen as the only way to lasting peace, but how continuing tension between federalists and nationalists has left the Union unable to fulfil its [...]
Local to Global - Is federalism the answer to national populism? 16th April 2018 Tis event marked the launch of a new Federal Trust pamphlet by Dr Michael Lloyd, in which he discusses the potential of genuinely federal institutions at the local, national and global level as providing an answer [...]
