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Further comments on the dramatic Australian election results of November 2007 by an experienced Australian observer, John Greenwell [More >>>]

John Langmore, former Australian Labor Party MP and international civil servant, now an academic and writer, reflects on last week’s Australian elections [More >>>]

Gordon Brown’s misfortunes mostly don’t deserve current savage allegations of incompetence, but the government needs to show more humility by dropping some discredited policies and reacting more flexibly to its own and others’ mistakes [More >>>]

My letter in the Times (23.xi.07) exposes some myths about the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia over Kosovo in 1999. Need to head off a Kosovo Albanian UDI [More >>>]

Brian’s contribution to the series “What England means to me”, at http://whatenglandmeanstome.co.uk/?p=94, reproduced here in full [More >>>]

The LibDems should be pressed to abandon their current flabby refusal to say what they would do in a hung parliament: would they put Labour or the Tories into No. 10? We have a right to know [More >>>]

Comments, serious and less so, on a smattering of recent happenings, from the Queen’s speech and Jack Straw walking backwards in drag, to Camilla, Princess of Wales, and the death of an exorcist [More >>>]

An open letter to my MP proposes an eventual fully-fledged federal system for the UK’s four nations, the only solution to the W Lothian question and other anomalies in our current semi-federal, semi-unitary constitution [More >>>]