The Chair of the US House Committee on Homeland Security has scorned the Europeans as having no experience or understanding of terrorism compared with post-9/11 Americans. Hard to take from a man who was for years a leading supporter of the IRA’s fund-raising organisation in the US [More >>>]
The Labour Party seems to have decided that political parties should henceforth be funded mainly out of general taxation, and its ‘consultation’ takes that as read. But there are better ways for parties to raise the money they need without resorting to compulsion [More >>>]
Problem over line and paragraph breaks in comments on Ephems posts now solved, thanks to resident guru’s efforts and eventual success in bug-hunting [More >>>]
Articles in the Guardian of 24 May 06, by Simon Jenkins and Ronald Dworkin, comprise a crushing indictment of the failings of New Labour generally and Tony Blair in particular [More >>>]
The Tories and the tabloids are lambasting the government for not knowing how many illegal immigrants there are. I offer a solution [More >>>]
The prime minister and Lord Chancellor, shrilly supported by David Cameron, The Times and The Sun, threaten to amend or scrap the Human Rights Act on the mistaken assumption that this would enable them to deport those whom the courts won’t currently allow them to [More >>>]
I have just come across an interesting post and discussion on The Sharpener going back to last November about the West Lothian question — why should a Scottish MP speak and vote in the...
The Blair-Clarke proposals for the automatic deportation of all foreigners convicted of even quite minor offences regardless of individual circumstances, and for appeals against deportation to be permitted only after the deportation has taken place, should be strongly resisted if they surface again following the immolation of Charles Clarke [More >>>]
As well as the broad implications of Tony Blair’s reshuffle of 5 May, there are some interesting (and profoundly worrying) implications for the personalities involved [More >>>]