The second phase of constitutional reform in Britain is sending further waves of change through Wales and Scotland, parliament and the legal system. Tony Blair remains uninterested or suspicious, but Gordon Brown is ready to take up the cause

Stung by the fear of irrelevance and the Hutton inquiry, parliament is little by little becoming a more effective scrutineer

What's happening to stage two of Labour's constitutional reforms? How is stage one progressing? Lord Falconer and five leading commentators discuss

The Hutton inquiry has little to do with freedom of information

Ending Britain's "elective dictatorship" is a slowly rolling programme which has now thrown up a British supreme court

Devolution allows social policy experiments. But, as the English higher education white paper shows, it also has unintended effects

Disestablishment of the Church of England is a no-lose policy: It is radical, it is right and virtually no one opposes it

A British supreme court would sweep away the triple office of the Lord Chancellor. Derry Irvine should bow to the inevitable

Tony Blair's special adviser on constitutional reform describes the messy success story

Scrapping the monarchy gets in the way of real political reform

Identifying the contradiction at the heart of constitutional reform