If Angela Eagle (or another MP) does challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership, can Corbyn be a candidate in the ensuing leadership election even if he fails to get the minimum number of nominations laid...
Events are moving so swiftly that it’s difficult to write anything that won’t be overtaken a few hours later. The defenestration of Boris Johnson and the candidature to succeed Cameron of Michael Gove (who...
The result of the referendum on 23 June at first seemed conclusive. A clear majority of the UK electorate had voted for withdrawal from the EU. Neither parliament nor any foreseeable UK government can...
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes insane. That might be Britain’s epitaph after yesterday’s referendum in which a majority of the Britons voting decided that our country is to expel itself...
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...
The dreadful murder of a very special person and outstanding Labour MP, Jo Cox, yesterday has inevitably overshadowed a much lesser event on any reckoning, but still one of some significance. This is the...
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?),...
IPPs – Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection – were belatedly abolished in 2012 by the first liberal Justice Secretary or Home Secretary for years, Ken Clarke, a Tory. But the thousands of prisoners then...
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...