The second of a 3-part television assessment of Blair’s premiership, although damning, was flawed by too many uncorrected misrepresentations of the historical record. The verdict: a weak and self-deluded man repeatedly using dishonest means to promote what he believes to be right [More >>>]
Listen to a BBC radio 4 play (9pm, 16 March) about a prisoner who for 25 years inside insisted that he was innocent, and as a result was denied parole — and has now won his appeal against conviction [More >>>]
A message to my MP about how to frustrate Jack Straw’s incredible proposals for House of Lords reform, and a plea for others to write similarly to their own MPs [More >>>]
Another batch of objections to the proposed federation of the United Kingdom, and why they’re invalid: plus some clarifications [More >>>]
Another Control Order has been quashed for failure to consider prosecuting the suspect instead, and because its restrictions are in breach of the Human Rights Convention. Time to scrap control orders and allow secret evidence in certain limited cases to be heard in ordinary criminal courts. Update (25/ii/07) on SIAC [More >>>]
A first batch of suggested answers to some of the objections and problems raised in comments on my earlier proposals for a fully fledged federation of the United kingdom’s four nations [More >>>]
Some more vicious assaults on the English language, committed in the print media and by Mr Blair … [More >>>]
Tony Blair replies to Stephen Fry’s question whether after devolution and in view of the W Lothian question, a unitary UK is sustainable [More >>>]
