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...parliamentary structure and majoritarian election system. In most other countries, parliament is elected proportionally, and a no-confidence vote usually paves the way to a new government with a new set of coalition partners. This, obviously, cannot make sense in Britain, where it’s either Conservative or Labour. Furthermore, I strongly object to your wording “The no confidence vote is a relic of systems in which the executive needs approval from the legislature in order to rule.” Actually, it’s the American presidential system that is a relic...
...from where Hockney was born, he's steaming. "You know that Hitler didn't smoke?" he asks suddenly, as though daring me to disagree that this alone might explain der Fhrer's lust for world conquest. Last fall on British radio Hockney debated Julie Morgan, the Labour Member of Parliament who spearheaded the ban. "Death awaits you whether you smoke or not," he warned her. "Pubs are not health clubs." As for New York City, now that it has its own smoking ban, he's through with it. "Little Emily with asthma," he sighs. "She has taken over Manhattan...
...ground in Palestine, but it is neither unprecedented nor reason to panic.This abrupt political upset in the Middle-East is not unprecedented in nature and scope; the general election rivaled, in its ferocity and politically unsettling outcome, the Israeli political epic of 1977. In 1977, the Israeli Labour party lost the general elections to the Likud for the first time in the history of the state of Israel. The disciples of David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of the Jewish State, lost to the descendants of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist revisionist who articulated the Iron Wall theory and sought...
...President Amy M. Zelcer ’07 wrote in an e-mail last night. “Although Sharon’s Kadima party has experienced a great loss, the party’s mission reflects a pragmatic, centrist attitude in between the ranks of Peretz’ Labour and Netanyahu’s Likud that with able leadership, has the potential to survive Sharon,” Zelcer wrote. Mohammed J. Herzallah ’07, a Palestinian from Ramallah, said last night that many Palestinians disagreed with Sharon’s unwillingness to deal directly with Palestinian...
...about real-life politics then and now. The ’80s saw a “sexualized idolatry of Mrs. Thatcher,” and while Tony Blair’s victory in 1997 finally offered “relief from the Tories” by his liberal Labour party, Blair’s record has become only “a crushing disappointment and a cruel disabusing.”However incensed the armchair, I can’t imagine Hollinghurst ever trading it for the campaign stump. During our conversation and his Brattle Theater book discussion...