Oxford Political Review
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Is British democracy really under threat?
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What’s been going on? In late September 2019, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the government acted unlawfully in proroguing, i.e. suspending, parliament for 5 weeks. The supposed reason for this prorogation – to prepare for a Queen’s speech – was deemed by the courts to be insufficient to justify such a long period of…
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Posturing for Symmetry
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This time last month, protestors had demonstrated outside the Indian High Commission in London, where a large crowd turned up to resist the impact of Indian aggression in Kashmir. Pakistan critiqued Modi’s cabinet revoking Kashmir’s special status on the 5th of August as a violation of international law – while New Delhi struggled with maintaining…
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Israeli Elections 2019, Part II. What’s Next?
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Israel headed to the polls on Tuesday for the second time in 2019. The contest was widely seen as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. After a fraught election, neither Netanyahu nor his main challenger, former IDF commander Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, have an easy path to form a coalition government. The…