A huge storm has blown up in the media and among MPs over the action of the police in arresting the Tory front-bench shadow immigration minister, Damian Green, holding him for nine hours (including two hours of questioning), searching with considerable rigour both his offices (including his office in the House of Commons) and his [...]
Today’s (20 November 2008) Guardian publishes a letter from me about Lord Bingham’s recent declaration that the attack on Iraq was illegal, and the counter-arguments by Lord Goldsmith, Attorney-General at the time, that it was not. As the edited and published version (perhaps inevitably) omits some of its nuances, here is the original text [...]
In case any reader of this hasn’t already heard it, President-elect Obama’s first weekly address, delivered on 15 November, can be seen and heard on YouTube at
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8f9Zqap6U .
It lasts some three and a half minutes.
It’s also available on The Huffington Post (online newspaper) of 18 November at –
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/15/obama-urges-congress-to-m_n_144035.html
The meatiest part of the extended interview with [...]
The final results of the US presidential election are not yet in [16 November 2008], but we know enough to highlight some key figures. With 66.7 million popular votes and counting, and with a lead of 6.5 percentage points over John McCain, Barack Obama won more popular votes than any other US presidential candidate [...]
Thanks to my trusty filial Webmeister-in-Chief, Website and Blog Manager, Ephems has had another major makeover. It’s now even more closely integrated with its parent website and the very useful ‘Search’ facility at the top of each page has been restored to health, now for the first time searching the whole of the website and [...]
Last night was an exciting time to be in New York. Our younger daughter, L, voted in the morning for the first time in an American national election since becoming an American citizen: there were no queues outside the polling station, and inside we watched the orderly line of voters patiently waiting for their turn [...]
