The threat of UK disintegration: time for a federal alternative
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB On the always stimulating Our Kingdom website (“a conversation on the future of…
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On Ethiopian famine reunion, Stephen Grey and other pieces and bits
By Brian Barder UPDATE: For the next seven days only you can listen to the BBC Reunion programme…
ockerbie: full marks to Scotland’s Mr MacAskill
By Brian Barder I have no doubt that the Scottish National Party’s Mr MacAskill, Justice Secretary in the…
The key issue at the general election: it’s the economy, stupid
By Brian Barder In the last few days the Tories have been discomfited, and Labour correspondingly heartened, by…
How progressive are the Tories really, Mr Reeves?
By Brian Barder Yesterday’s Observer has a longish article by Richard Reeves, the Director of the think-tank Demos,…
Protest demonstrations and the police
By Brian Barder [Note: The following comments on police behaviour at protest demonstrations were originally sent in an…
Palestine and Israel: deep in the forest something stirs?
By Brian Barder UPDATE: (20th July 09): A report from Jerusalem in Monday’s New York Times (hat-tip: David…
Time to drop the dishonest “Tories cut, Labour invests” mantra
By Brian Barder Labour party members recently received a circular message purporting to come from Ed Balls, the…
Notes on a bleak political scene
By Brian Barder Some disconnected thoughts on the present discontents: David Cameron’s merciless, if tiresomely and unnecessarily repetitive,…
Gordon’s Constititutional Reform Programme: some snags
By Brian Barder In his statement in the House of Commons on 10 June 2009, the Prime Minister…
