On the November 2007 Australian elections (2)
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Further comments on the dramatic Australian election results of November 2007 by an experienced Australian observer, John Greenwell [More >>>]
Entries in November, 2007
A view of the Australian election result — (1)
Monday, November 26th, 2007John 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: thoughts on the present discontents
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Gordon 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 >>>]
Kosovo looms yet again
Friday, November 23rd, 2007My 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 >>>]
Thoughts on England
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Brian’s contribution to the series “What England means to me”, at http://whatenglandmeanstome.co.uk/?p=94, reproduced here in full [More >>>]
What are the LibDems for?
Saturday, November 17th, 2007The 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 >>>]
Some observations on this and that
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Comments, 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 >>>]
A federal UK ticks all the boxes
Friday, November 2nd, 2007An 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 >>>]
