There’s nothing fair about a graduate tax, Ed and Vince
By Brian Barder / @brianlb Ed Miliband, second favourite after his big brother for the Labour leadership, has…
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David Miliband: Time for some policies?
By Brian Barder / @brianlb The reception for David Miliband’s Keir Hardie lecture on 10 July 2010 has…
Afghanistan: the dog that still doesn’t bark in the night
By Brian Barder / @brianlb It’s extraordinary that the national political discourse isn’t dominated by the war in…
The inherent injustice and inhumanity of IPPs
By Brian Barder / @brianlb Many things are badly wrong with our prisons policies: chronic over-crowding of ageing…
BP, the oil spill and the Congressional committee
By Brian Barder I’m generally a fan of the American constitution, its Bill of Rights, and especially of…
Whither the Labour opposition? Part II of an open letter to the leader
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB Dear Harriet, If the Labour Party is going to make a healthy recovery…
Whither Labour now: an open letter to the leader
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB Dear Harriet, Decisions about what kind of opposition Labour is going to be…
We’re in full-blown crisis, but obsessed with the wrong one
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB The media, electronic and print, are in one of their periodic feeding frenzies…
Election reflections
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB I don’t think that the Lib Dems have any serious alternative to signing…
What Gordon’s people should say to Clegg’s people if parliament is hung
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB If there’s a hung parliament after Thursday’s election, whatever the position in terms…
