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From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war.
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The Unconstitutionality of the Prorogation Judgment
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that when three Lords Commissioners prorogued Parliament—by reading a royal commission to the Lords and Commons assembled in the House of Lords at about 2 a.m. on September 10 (a date undiscoverable from the judgment)—it was all “unlawful, null and of no effect”, just “as if the Commissioners had walked into Parliament with a blank piece of paper”. In thus impeaching what was self-evidently a proceeding in Parliament, the Court was acting against an Act of Parliament which for over 300 years has been regarded as decisive in defining the constitution of the United Kingdom and the law and conventions (including judicial conventions) governing the highest organs of the realm. That Act is the Bill of Rights 1689, which by Article 9 provides that “Proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parliament”.
The judgment’s attempt to justify this evasion of the primary and…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
