The Constitution of 1988 took the morality issue so seriously that, according to article 85(V), the president of the Republic may be criminally charged and lose his/her mandate in case of acts against administrative probity. [read post]

CharonQC, with what was then his fifth Blawg Review (he's since hosted an impressive sixth) started the year off with a welcome from the Baron Mandelson of Foy, Prince of Darkness, First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Lord President of The Council and Witch Finder-General for H M Government…"You are unwise to lower your defenses" This week, Mike Semple Piggot and his friends at the bar covered a great deal… [read post]

The propaganda strategy is not meant for the state apparatus of competitor states. [read post]

(Those who are interested in its progress of the Review can read a series of posts by The Transparency Project site, based upon FOI requests and responses to those requests – given that at the time of writing Parliament has just been dissolved and an election looms it seems unlikely the review report will see the light of day any time soon, if at all[5])  Whether the family courts consistently protect victims and children from the wider harmful effects of domestic abuse is… [read post]

  One has seen how that is now being developed using the mechanisms of private law in OECD Specific Instance applications against enterprises ealleged to have breached their responsibility (markets driven private law based) and to that extent extra legal as a function of domestic legal orders) through acts of complicity in fragile states, conflict zones, or in cooperating with states whose own views of human rights ans sustainability are incompatible with those of the home… [read post]