It would be madness to venture a personal view on the latest Israel-Gaza conflict unless from under a double-thickness cycle helmet and from deep inside a suit of armour, but a cool, clear statement...
All sensible people are bound to sympathise with David Laws as his soaring ministerial career crashes almost before it has taken off. I’m not too sure, though, about what is fast becoming the conventional...
Some jewels from the print media …the day after an email exchange about liberty between Tony Blair and I was published in the Observer, … Henry Porter, The Observer 16 May 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/16/henry-porter-civil-liberties-coalition …an...
Dear Harriet, Decisions about what kind of opposition Labour is going to be obviously can’t wait until the leadership elections in the autumn: it falls to you to set the tone and issue the...
For one brief shining moment it looked as if Camelot might be possible after all: the LibDems and Labour share much common ground; very many — probably most — LibDems see themselves as left...
My Google Alert service has belatedly noticed this: Twitter / LabourList: Brian Barder on what Gordon’s people should say to Clegg’s people if parliament is hung … https://barder.com/2526 Brian Barder on what Gordon’s people...
The media, electronic and print, are in one of their periodic feeding frenzies over the hung parliament and the leisurely horse-trading (very much the right word, alas) over who might form a British government...
5pm on Friday 7 May 2010 with only one more result to come in today: Tories 305 (36.1%), Labour 258 (29.1%), LibDems 57 (23.0%). I don’t think that the LibDems have any serious alternative...
It’s 1030am on Friday 7 May, the morning after the night before. Enough results are in to make it arithmetically impossible for any one party to win an overall majority in parliament. As expected,...
In my previous blog post I sketched out a possible message that Gordon Brown’s emissary might usefully deliver to a representative of Nick Clegg, the LibDem leader, in the event of a hung parliament. ...