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The U.s. States That Allow For Citizens' Initiatives Tend To Have Fewer Laws And Lower Taxes Than The Ones That Don't. But The Beauty Of The System Is That It Encourages The Spread Of Best Practice.

Most British People Are Keen To Remain In A European Free Trade Zone; And Most Eu States Are Keen To Keep Us There, Because We Buy From Them More Than We Sell To Them To The Tune Of £40 Million Per Day.

Political Reporters No Longer Get To Decide What's News. The Days When A Minister Gave Briefings To A Dozen Lobby Correspondents, And Thereby Dictated The Next Day's Headlines, Are Over. Now, A Thousand Bloggers Decide For Themselves What Is Interesting. If Enough Of Them Are Tickled Then, Bingo, You're News.

The 'eu In A Nutshell' Is A Miscellany Of Facts And Anecdotes About The System Which Rules Us. It's A Book You Can Delve Into In Pursuit Of A Particular Fact, Or Crack Open For Entertainment At Virtually Any Page.

I Am Not The Conservative Party's Health Care Spokesman. I'm Fond Of Andrew Lansley, And I Strongly Support David Cameron As Party Leader.