Why on earth shouldn’t prisoners vote?
By Brian Barder / @brianlb It’s sad to have to record that on February 10th 2011 the house…
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More confusion over the convicted ‘Lockerbie bomber’
By Brian Barder / @brianlb Is there no end to the muddle and misrepresentations generated by the controversy…
Control Orders: both government and Labour fail the test
By Brian Barder / @brianlb As widely predicted, the coalition government’s review of the previous government’s counter-terrorism legislation…
Coming round to Mr Balls
By Brian Barder / @brianlb I am fast coming round to Ed Balls, now Labour’s shadow chancellor of…
The Human Rights Act: another false attack
By Brian Barder / @brianlb Tories from the Prime Minister downwards, and (to their shame) some relics of…
Extradition has lost its way
By Brian Barder / @brianlb Julian Assange, the Australian founder of Wikileaks, is spending another night in Wandsworth…
Ken Clarke’s proposals on IPPs deserve a heartfelt welcome
By Brian Barder / @brianlb The Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, introduced his proposals for reform of sentencing policy…
Wikileaks: damage or just embarrassment?
By Brian Barder / @brianlb More than a quarter of a million American diplomatic cables have been leaked…
Time to shut up New Labour’s old dinosaurs
By Brian Barder / @brianlb A few months after he had formed the new Labour government in 1945,…
Coalition ‘welfare’ policy: back to the workhouse
By Brian Barder / @brianlb I’m appalled by the qualified approval by Labour Party shadow ministers for IDS’s…
