Paul Silk
@paulsilk.bsky.social
Former parliamentary official. Devolution, parliaments, the constitution, rural Wales, Ukraine, amateur theology, and incompetent language-learning
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Our new blogpost explains why the reduction breaches a legal duty and how this breach reveals a deeper legislative failure.🔽
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Breaching the 0.7% international aid target: a case study in legislative failure
The Prime Minister’s plan to cut international aid breaches the Government’s legal duty to meet the 0.7% spending target, raising constitutional concerns. Should an Act allow for premeditated…
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March 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Our new blogpost explains why the reduction breaches a legal duty and how this breach reveals a deeper legislative failure.🔽
buff.ly/92lbtKz
buff.ly/92lbtKz
Reposted by Paul Silk
A critique by our @hansardsociety.bsky.social
trustee @paulsilk.bsky.social about his experience as a petitioner in the Brecon and Radnor constituency in 2019 explored some of these admin/procedural flaws in the process. 10/
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/the-bre...
trustee @paulsilk.bsky.social about his experience as a petitioner in the Brecon and Radnor constituency in 2019 explored some of these admin/procedural flaws in the process. 10/
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/the-bre...
The Brecon and Radnorshire recall petition process: personal reflections by Sir Paul Silk
As an elector in Brecon and Radnorshire, Hansard Society Trustee Sir Paul Silk sets out 12 shortcomings he observed in the recall petition process that led on 21 June to the triggering of a parliament...
www.hansardsociety.org.uk
February 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A critique by our @hansardsociety.bsky.social
trustee @paulsilk.bsky.social about his experience as a petitioner in the Brecon and Radnor constituency in 2019 explored some of these admin/procedural flaws in the process. 10/
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/the-bre...
trustee @paulsilk.bsky.social about his experience as a petitioner in the Brecon and Radnor constituency in 2019 explored some of these admin/procedural flaws in the process. 10/
www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/the-bre...
It is profoundly depressing that a Russell Group university is contemplating the ending of research and teaching in the core humanities
February 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It is profoundly depressing that a Russell Group university is contemplating the ending of research and teaching in the core humanities