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PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS

 

Issue No 60 Friday 07 May 2010

 

ELECTORAL REFORM 

 

ELECTION SPECIAL - How The Kellowian Weighted Representations Electoral System Would Change The May 2010 Result

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Issue No 59 Friday 30 April 2010

GENERAL ELECTION 

The Shadow of Big Finance over the General Election

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Issue No 58 Friday 23 April 2010

 

ELECTORAL REFORM 

The Kellowian Weighted Representations Electoral System

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Issue No 57 Friday 12 March 2010

CULTURE 

Avatar: Hobbesian Nightmare Future Or Resonant Creation Myth

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Issue No 56 Friday 05 March 2010

SOCIETY

Intergenerational Conflict Is Wrong - The Young Must Not Blame The Old For Their Problems

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Issue No 55 Friday 26 February 2010

CONSTITUTION

We Need A Written Constitution – But Who Has The Authority To Write It?

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Issue No 54 Friday 22 January 2010

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Neoliberalism – The Political Philosophy That Has Blighted Our Times

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Issue No 53 Friday 25 December 2009

OBAMA

Obama has already forced the AMERICAN GOVERNMENT into Wall Street Debt Slavery. Now he plans the same for the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

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Issue No 52 Friday 18 December 2009

MONETARY REFORM

 The National Debt - How We Can Get Out Of Jail

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Issue No 51 Friday 20 November 2009

CONSITITUTION

 Government Overrides The  Distinction Between Law And Policy

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Issue No 50 Friday 30 October 2009

BANKS

 Why The Banks Can Blackmail Us

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Issue No 49 Friday 25 September 2009

SOCIETY

Hope, No Hope And The Need For “Closure”

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Issue No 48 Friday 28 August 2009

CIVIL SERVICE

Whom do you trust the most? The elected or the unelected?

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Issue No 47 Friday 14 August 2009

ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

The Totnes Primary Election – A Step Forward In The Trivialisation Of Politics

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Issue No 46 Friday 24 July 2009

COMMONWEALTH

The Commonwealth Of Nations Is Good News. So Why Do We Ignore It?

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Issue No 44 Friday 10 July 2009

DRUGS

UN Drugs Report Says Prohibition Is Necessary To Keep Prices High So That Poor People Cannot Afford Them

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Issue No 43 Friday 03 July 2009

ECONOMY

Obama Extends War In Afghanistan. But In Doing So He Violates The Constitution

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Issue No 42 Friday 26 June 2009

CONSTITUTION

Sarkozy Summons Parliament To Versailles. But Who Should Be Summoning Who?

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Issue No 41 Friday 19 June 2009

ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

The European Elections Results Surprise. But No One Understand The Electoral System

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Issue No 40 Friday 12 June 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE

The New Film Home – A Unique World Wide Broadcasting Event. And Uniquely Unavailable In The Kingdom

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Issue No 39 Friday  05 June 2009

INDUSTRY

American and British car industries: Where the failure really lies

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IIssue No 37 Friday 22 May 2009

CONSTITUTION

How To Release The “Arthritic Grip On The Windpipe Of Our Democracy”

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Issue No 36 Friday 15 May 2009

CORRUPTION

The MP’s Expenses Scandal. Just Give Them Something Important To Do

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Issue No 35 Friday 08 May 2009

PUBLIC SERVICES

Why We Are Right To Feel Attached To State Run Post Offices And The Royal Mail

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Issue No 34 Friday  01 May 2009

COMMONWEALTH

How The Commonwealth Development Corporation Became The CDC.  Or How Vision Turned To Greed.

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Issue No 33 Friday 24 April 2009

ECONOMY

A matter of economic life or death

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Issue No 31 Friday 24 April 2009

ECONOMY

G20 Summit Backs Brown Policy Response To Economic Meltdown – Create Money To Produce Growth. So The Medicine For The Sickness Is The Same As The Cause Of The Sicknes

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Issue No 30 Friday 03 April 2009

EDUCATION

Government Education Report Has Nothing To Say About Citizenship

 

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Issue No 29 Friday 27 March 2009

 

BANKS

 

Why Are We Ruining Ourselves Bailing Out The Banks? Might Not It Be Better To Have Bankrupt Banks Than A Bankrupt Country?

 

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Issue No 28 Friday 20 March 2009

 

POLITICS

 

The Future of Politics: Why we need a Republican Party

 

REPUBLICANISM

 

The Three Meanings of “Republicanism”

 

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Issue No 27 Friday 13 March 2009

 

MONARCHY

 

What Happens When An Elected President Meets Our Unelected Monarch? And Why Does Obama Want To Meet The Queen?

 

FOREIGN RELATIONS

 

While He Seeks Out The Queen, Obama Snubs Brown On His Washington Visit

 

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Issue No 26 Friday 06 March 2009

 

VIRTUE

 

Celebrity And Timeserving Are Today’s Measures Of Success. But What Happened To Merit And Achievement?

 

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Issue No 25 Friday 27 February 2009

 

LAW

 

New Labour’s New Invention – “The Court Of Public Opinion”. Brown And Harman Seek To Further Undermine The Rule Of Law

 

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Issue No 24 Friday 20 February 2009

 

CANADA

Gordon Brown Never Tires Of Telling Us That The Economic Crisis Is Worldwide. But There Is One G7 Country He Never Mentions

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Issue No 23 Friday 13 February 2009

 

PROSTITUTION

 

Plan To Make Paying For Sex Illegal Will Do Nothing To Stop Human Trafficking

 

Women's Institute Boldly Leads The Way In Move To Create Safe, Legal, Regulated Brothels. 7000 Strong Hampshire Section Have Already Passed A Resolution In Favour

 

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Issue No 22 Friday 06 February 2009

 

DRUGS

 

Our Government’s Response To Mexico’s Narcoterrorism: Reclassify Cannabis From C To B

 

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Issue No 21 Friday 29 January 2009

 

RIGHTS

 

Newly Formed Rights Campaign MODERN LIBERTY Holds Nationwide Convention on Saturday 28 February 2009

 

Anti-Terrorist Laws Used Against Iceland. This Abuse Of Power Must Be A Warning

 

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Issue No 20 Friday 23 January 2009

 

AFGHAN WAR

 

The Lie Used By The British Government To Justify The Afghan War

 

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Issue No 19 Friday 16 January 2009

 

USA CONSTITUTION

 

How the US Cabinet Works. With President Obama’s Inauguration Next Tuesday He Brings A Whole New Administrative Apparatus With Over 4000 New Staff

 

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Issue No 18 Friday 9 January 2009

·        MONARCHY

King Charles III, To Gag Or Not To Gag. That Is The Question   -   For Some.  But Perhaps We Should Not Be Afraid To Upset The Apple Cart

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Issue No 17 Friday 2 January 2009

BANKING CRISIS

The Fundamental Problem That Brought About The Financial Meltdown --- The Creation Of The Money Supply Was Left To Private Banks Not The Government.

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Issue No 16 Friday 19 December 2008

UK CONSTITUTION

This is “The Criminalisation Of Politics” - Michael Portillo, Ex-Tory Cabinet  Member and Journalist

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Issue No 15 Friday 12 December 2008

UK CONSTITUTION

 “Commons Now Managed By Government - Totally, Absolutely And Completely”  -David Starkey, Historian

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Issue No 14 Friday 5 December 2008

SPECIAL JOHN MILTON QUATERCENTENARY EDITION

The Republican beliefs of John Milton, our greatest poet, mean that the 400th anniversary of his birth on Tuesday, 9th December 2008, is being ignored

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Issue No 13 Friday 28 November 2008

TELEVISION

British Television At Last Broadcasts A Series Focusing On British Republican History

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Issue No 12 Friday 21 November 2008

 

RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION

"Russia's Proposal to Extend Presidential Term May Not Be Just A Ploy For Putin To Return As President"

 

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Issue No 11 Friday 14 November 2008

 

UK CONSTITUTION

 

“A British Equivalent Of Barack Obama Would Find It Extremely Difficult To Become Prime Minister.” But The Problem Is The Constitution Not The Voters

 

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Issue No 10 Friday 7 November 2008

 

HEALTH

 

Allowing Top Up Payments For Medication Will Usher In Top Up Health Insurance. We Must Act Quickly To Regulate This

 

RIGHTS

 

Brown Courts Trouble With Ill-Thought Out Proposals For A “Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities”

 

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Issue No 9 Friday 31 October 2008

 

UK CONSTITUTION

 

Full Text of Speech in support of Civic Republican motion at Republic Annual Conference.

 

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Issue No 8 Friday 24 October 2008

 

RIGHTS

 

"Necessitous men are not free men” Important Parliamentary Committee Bill of Rights Report evokes Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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Issue No 7 Friday 17 October 2008

 

    UK CONSTITUTION

 

Come and vote for Civic Republican motion at Republic Annual Conference next Saturday.

 

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Issue No 6 Friday 10 October 2008

 

UK AND USA CONSTITUTIONS

 

Measures to deal with the financial crisis in Britain and USA may not be quite the same, but the way the constitutions responded to them are a world apart.

    Unelected Mandelson parachuted into key position.

 

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Issue No 5 Friday 3 October 2008

ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

Financial Meltdown May Produce Moral Meltdown As Well

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Issue No 4 Friday 26 September 2008

 

DRUGS

 

The Prohibition On Recreational Drugs Debate

 

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Issue No 3 Friday 19th September 2008

HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM

Why An Elected Lords Is Not Good Civic Republicanism

 

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Issue No 2 Friday 12 September 2008

 

MORTGAGES

Brown and Darling pull a shabby trick on first time buyers

BANKS

      Why Britain's banks are on borrowed time....

 

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Issue No 1 Friday 5 September 2008

 

BELGIUM

 

Coming Break Up Of Belgium Could Have Great Ramifications

 

ECONOMY

 

Our personal finances are the worst they’ve ever been

 

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© Peter Kellow 2008

 

 

 

 

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