https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/tags/united-kingdom/Recent content in United Kingdom on Vaults of the ODDHugoen-gbTue, 21 Jul 2026 09:05:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-constitutional-development-framework/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-constitutional-development-framework/A strategic framework for Welsh constitutional development across the 2026–2030 Senedd term. Its thesis is that constitutional durability follows institutional capability rather than preceding it — that building governing capacity is itself constitutional work, and serves Wales under any of the futures identified by the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/representing-contested-constitutional-questions/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/representing-contested-constitutional-questions/A method paper on how to describe the contested questions around constitutional change — whether and how a nation might become a state — without letting a finding in one domain (law, scholarship, practice, politics) silently settle another. It argues for no outcome; it maps what is known, what is genuinely contested, and what is uncertain, and keeps them distinct.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/wales-westminster-constitutional-development/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/wales-westminster-constitutional-development/The Westminster-facing companion to the Framework. It examines where the present devolution settlement creates problems — institutional coherence, accountability, intergovernmental friction, constitutional asymmetry — and where reform would serve both Welsh and UK Government interests. It argues no single constitutional endpoint.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/constructing-coordinating-machinery/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/constructing-coordinating-machinery/A short analytical note using the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act 2026 as a worked example of what a devolved legislature can build within its existing competence — and of the gap between the capacity to legislate a framework and the capacity to operate one.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/comparative-fiscal-capacity/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/comparative-fiscal-capacity/A comparative analysis of what each live constitutional path — the current settlement, enhanced devolution and independence — would require Wales to build in fiscal capacity, and how strong the evidence is for each requirement. Working through eleven mechanisms, from territorial funding and borrowing to currency, welfare and payment systems, it argues the paths are not steps on a single ladder of more or less power but different problems of capacity — and recommends none of them. A companion evidence annex carries the full method, mechanism dossiers and source log.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/persistent-asset-charge/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/persistent-asset-charge/A constitutional architecture for a recurring charge on the holding of concentrated assets, independent of income, gains, transfers or death, and immune to the legal form in which they are held. It sets out three governing principles, settles what follows from them, and separates what is architecture from what is a matter for Parliament and what only evidence can determine. A companion stress-testing pass tries to break the model and reports honestly what holds.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/persistent-asset-charge-stress-test/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:05:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/persistent-asset-charge-stress-test/The adversarial companion to the architecture paper: an attempt to break the model and report honestly what breaks. It tests revenue sufficiency and human-rights durability first, since either failing would make the rest moot, then works through avoidance migration, capital flight, administrative feasibility and cumulative taxation. No test returns a fatal verdict, but two return serious but addressable, each with a specific, nameable condition.