In its formal legal submission to the Supreme Court, the British government states categorically that a notification of intention to withdraw from the EU will be irrevocable, and no conditions may be attached to it....
The Labour party incomprehensibly decided to run a kamikaze Labour candidate in the Richmond Park by-election, thereby risking diverting enough votes from the LibDem challenger to let the discredited Zac Goldsmith (Tory but running...
“[A]t the moment I am in anguish, frightened for my country and for our unity. And for the first time, I feel homeless in America.” Thomas J Friedman, New York Times, 9 Nov. After...
Writing this in New York just before a US presidential election of global significance, it’s easy to overlook the importance and implications for Britain of the judgement of the High Court requiring the government...
J and I have been here in New York for only a few days but we have been watching a lot of local television, ringing the changes on the news channels, including the dire Fox...
Until last weekend, the prime minister had one asset that she could have used to motivate other EU leaders to enter into preliminary discussions of the broad framework of Britain’s future relationship with the...
The Guardian of 16 August 2016 prints most of my letter pointing out that Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the party, along with his ‘campaign spokesman’ [sic], at least one other writer of a letter...
My family historian wife, Jane Barder, has exhaustively researched and written a fascinating and often moving account of her father’s (and his family’s) experiences during the second world war, from the time when he...
In a comment on my earlier post, ‘ObiterJ’ has helpfully drawn attention to an article by the philosopher and commentator Professor A C Grayling in which he states forcefully the legal and constitutional case...
In a recent post on Open Democracy UK, the formidable Sunder Katwala has advised us emotional Europeans to get through the mourning phases of grief and anger and at last embrace ‘acceptance’. Being strongly...