How to be an opposition. The crucial passage:. But this is certainly one. Of course the parliamentary system both institutionalises the role of the opposition and makes it much easier than in the US. Other ministers, too, face regular peer-to-peer debate.
And unlike in Congress, the debates are considered to matter. So the Democrats lack these advantages not that the Conservatives have figured out how to use them against Tony Blair. But an examination of the record of successful oppositions in Britain will reveal some valuable lessons. It was nearly 20 years before Labour got back into power. There were plenty of times when it seemed as though it would never return to power, but from the Neil Kinnock days as leader I think the party put itself on something like the right track.
John Smith took up the cudgels. And Tony Blair finally devastated the Conservatives. I wish I had more confidence that the Democrats had the leaders in the House or the Senate to put them on the right track. Tough times sometimes make for great men. Indicators for the falling dollar. Their scare-mongering means that the real dangers have already been capitalized and digested.
Channelling Gibbon to explain open source. The first Nobel prizewinner weblog. From the first demo entry, it seems as if Larry Lessig helped them set it up.
If Becker and Posner start writing, this could be very interesting via Eugene Volokh. High time. In praise of orange. De Toqueville and pumpkin pie. It seems unfashionable, but I like pumpkin pie and I love turkey. As Lenin wrote. For all the talk that British government is becoming more and more American in style, some things do emphasise the difference. My quiz question: is there any US politician that would admit to reading Lenin even for research purposes , or who would know how to use terms like revanchism, false consciousness and splitism?
