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Attacking Tony Blair through Cherie
Cherie Blair’s comment on suicide bombers seemed to me (and many others) perfectly unobjectionable; and now that it has at long last become quite unacceptable to treat married women as mere appendages of their husbands (however exalted), I can’t believe that people are still saying that she has no right to express her own opinions on whatever subject she likes without being in any way inhibited by the possibility of not following the government’s or party’s line
Reactions to my letter
Reactions to my Times letter arguing for acknowledgement of the need for UN Security Council authority for any pre-emptive military action against Iraq: e-mail messages profound and crazy
The Funeral of the Queen Mother
Implications of the Queen Mother’s death: what the turnout for the funeral doesn’t mean, and the difficulties of abolishing the monarchy.