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Devolutionary theory: How Westminster is killing the Union

21 October 2020

4:25 PM

21 October 2020

4:25 PM

Robert Conquest’s third law (which may not have been his third law) says that the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation is most easily explained if one assumes it has been captured by enemy secret agents. This maxim often comes to mind when I read about the UK government’s latest wheeze to ‘save the Union’.

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