An unusually positive and enthusiastic case for Remain (Britain remaining in the European Union) is made in a new article by two writers who have both had extensive but different experiences of working with EU colleagues...
Today’s (15 June 2016) Financial Times publishes a column by their top economics commentator, the internationally respected Martin Wolf, who conveys the grimmest and most cogent warning of the likely effects of Britain leaving the European Union...
In a memorable recent television debate dominated by strong, articulate, piercingly intelligent women (Angela Eagle, Nicola Sturgeon, Amber Rudd, Gisela Stuart, Andrea Leadsom – where were Caroline Lucas and Maria Eagle? Yvette Cooper, even?),...
This is a postscript to my recent blog post at https://barder.com/4638, with new information. Not only is my book What Diplomats Do – The life and work of diplomats out now (May 2016) in affordable...
This is (obviously) a new post on my Ephems blog. This time it’s also an advertisement. My first (and only) book, What Diplomats Do: the life and work of diplomats, was published in the United...
Labour’s showing in the 2016 elections was the worst of all possible worlds: terrible, but not quite bad enough to precipitate a change of leadership and direction, and nothing like good enough to offer...
Dear Mr Corbyn – or may I, a non-Corbynista, call you Jeremy? I am one of the many Labour party members and supporters, including your critics, who unreservedly applauded your big speech on 14 April...
Western governments, including our own, have made plenty of mistakes in the middle east and the Balkans since the blundering NATO attack on Yugoslavia in 1999 and the aggression against Iraq four years later,...
My old friend Robin Fairlie and I summoned up enough vanity to imagine that our recent exchange of emails about the state of the world might be of wider interest. So here it is. Dear...
After much soul-searching and wobbling, I have come to the conclusion that Britain ought to heed the call in UN Security Council resolution 2249 on countries with the capacity to do so to make...