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The Commonwealth media’s role in elections: some lessons from Britain and Canada

The Commonwealth media’s role in elections: some lessons from Britain and Canada

by chloe | Jan 8, 2020 | Canada & the Caribbean, Elections

by William Crawley, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The principles of freedom of information and freedom of expression are regarded as the core of shared values to which Commonwealth governments aspire. In practice many Commonwealth countries...
“A New Internationalism” v. “We Will Strengthen Britain In The World” in British General Election manifestos, 2019 – with reference to 1945

“A New Internationalism” v. “We Will Strengthen Britain In The World” in British General Election manifestos, 2019 – with reference to 1945

by chloe | Dec 7, 2019 | Elections

by Antoine Capet (University of Rouen) When reading the party manifestos for the forthcoming General Election, I was struck by the evolution in party thinking – at least as expressed to the voters – since the war. In my lecturing, I used to dwell on the difference...

Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Aug 13, 2013 | Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights

By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 billion in today’s value as compensation for the emancipation...

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