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The Campaign for an English Parliament - Argues that now that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved government, England needs its own Parliament.
Campaign for the English Regions (CFER) - Campaigning for devolution to the regions of England. Includes policy statements and contact information.
Campaign for Yorkshire - Campaigning for the people of Yorkshire and the Humber to have an elected regional assembly and run their own affairs.
Devolve! - Advocating the devolution of power both to England and to regions of England. Information about the group and their policies, and publications.
The English National Democratic Group - Discussion group for English nationalists who want to dissolve the United Kingdom and revert to country soverignty.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Devolution in Britain - Extended coverage about the news and issues about Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and well as English devolution. Includes archives, timeline and links.
The Regional Policy Forum - Broad based membership organisation with a remit to influence public debate on the regionalism of the UK and to provide opportunities for learning and dialogue. Information about the group and its policies, events, links and contacts.
Constitution Unit - An independent research body on constitutional change. Site contains information on the House of Lords, devolution, elections and parties, human rights, courts and the legal system, House of Commons and freedom of information.
Devolution and European Policy Making in the UK - The website of an academic research project (ESRC, UK funded) on devolution. The project seeks to determine the nature of multi-level governance across the constituent parts of the devolving UK by examining policy making on European Union matters.
English Independence Petition - Online petition calling for an English soverign state independent of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
the [new-wales] project - A portal for the devolutionary minded in Wales. Discussion groups, forums, chat, news and views.
BBC News: English 'want regional parliaments' - There is big support in the English regions for devolving power to elected regional assemblies, suggests a new poll for the BBC.
BBC News: English devolution plans at-a-glance - Outlines the main points of the government's proposals for regional assemblies.
BBC News: St George's Day call for devolution - The government is being urged to use St George's Day to announce a timetable for the introduction of elected regional assemblies.
DevWeb - Internet guide to UK Devolution, covering the constitution and the political structure of the United Kingdom and its dependencies.
Regional-Assembly.org.uk - Campaigns against UK regional assemblies as a "cunning plan to undermine the UK's national sovereignty".
Voice of the English (VOTE) - Calls for a referendum on English devolution.
Regional Assemblies - Advice, news and views on EU, assembly system, and the regionalisation of Britain.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Devolution Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" 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(Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Devolution I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. 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(Benjamin Franklin) Devolution "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Devolution Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Devolution The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Devolution Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Devolution "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Devolution Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Devolution My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Devolution Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Devolution I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Devolution "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Devolution "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Devolution Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Devolution
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