In a major Commons statement today (10 June 2009) introducing a national debate on constitutional reform, the prime minister included the system of elections to the House of Commons in his five constitutional topics...
J and I are just back from a three-day short break in Bruges. Our Bruges pictures are on Flickr at — http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianlb/sets/72157618576894874/. If that doesn’t load, click http://bit.ly/Q4x6v instead. To view the pictures in...
From the Sunday Times extract from Paddy Ashdown’s memoirs, published 12 April 09 (Lord Ashdown relates how news of a long-ago extra-marital affair was leaked to the News of the World in January 1992):...
I have posted on Twitter my account of the most memorable features of J’s and my flight from London to New York on Virgin Atlantic a couple of days ago. My Twitter posts (‘tweets’,...
Another dispute between parents who wish their child’s medical treatment, however hopeless, to continue, and the hospital doctors, who judge that treatment is burdensome and pointless and should be terminated, has just been decided...
Some things won’t change as much as we had hoped, even under President Obama: The Americans are still holding more than 14,000 Iraqi detainees in other facilities [besides Abu Ghraib], in conditions that have...
Posted from IE Internet Explorer As I write (mid-November) the final results of the US presidential election are not in, but we know enough to highlight some figures. With 66.7 million popular votes and...
My pre-new-year resolution for this diary entry is to resist the temptation to write about the credit crunch, global warming, the bankers, George Osborne, the Pope, the stock exchange, Governor Sarah Palin, the Daily...
A friend and former colleague has set me a challenge that (probably recklessly) I can’t resist: I would be interested in your view of 2 recent events involving Gordon Brown. The first is his...
A lively debate is in progress over on Owen’s blog about leaks of sensitive government information and the best way to deal with them. With apologies for my cowardly reluctance to butt in to...