EU’s good appointments, UK media’s dismal coverage
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB The EU’s appointments of the Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy (what comical…
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A referendum on UK’s EU membership? Please not yet!
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB In an eloquent article on Our Kingdom, David Marquand, the academic, former Labour…
Classifying drugs: the Home Secretary and the David Nutt case
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB It’s worth trying to identify some of the confusions that have arisen in…
The ‘President of Europe’ and other misconceptions
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB The sudden burst of media interest in the fading possibility of Tony Blair…
Question Time with the BNP: cui bono?
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB There’s been no shortage of strongly argued reactions to the BBC programme Question…
Will everyone please stop obsessing about debt and start worrying about unemployment?
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB In a Comment is Free article about the Tory obsession with the level…
On being nasty to the ‘first lady’ (not)
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB In today’s Observer the columnist Catherine Bennett makes a spiteful attack on Sarah…
On being nasty to the ‘first lady’ (not)
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB In today’s Observer the columnist Catherine Bennett makes a spiteful attack on Sarah…
Proposal #23: Improve access to parenting classes and offer them free to those on low incomes
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB It’s well established that poor parenting runs in families and can have disastrous…
Jobs, debt and cuts: which and when — an election quiz
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB Try to stifle that yawn at the prospect of yet another discussion of…
