Questioning political realities across the world.

Europe's union of political disenchantment. Christopher Bickerton. The EU and governance by consent: A quote: The rise of the politics of consensus has caused a new political cleavage: not left versus right but the political elite versus the people, the result of a real transformation of the state in Europe, not simply a product of misinformation. This is why in opposition to the EU we often find a curious unity between extremist parties on the left and on the right. The legitimacy of the G8. Fresh in from Nairobi :"The G8 is of no use and should dissolve itself". It begins: August 15, 2008: Legitimacy is a philosophical-political concept. It is also an ethical concept. In Western philosophy a distinction is sometimes made between legality and legitimacy. Before the dawn of liberal democracy in the West, the will of the sovereign monarch constituted the legal order. His or her decision was final. The French Revolution changed that.