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by Brian · 1 August, 2005

Welcome to the website of Brian Barder, an overweight old party with left-wing views and multiple strong opinions, addicted to arguing.

Harry Barder and his ancestors (5 comments)

Christopher Barder { I have an obituary of your father given by mine, the latter is no longer with us, and he talked ... }
Robert Marcus { Can anyone connect me to the Barders of Bolney Hall in Sussex who rescued my father Hans Marcus from persecution ... }

The 2017 Election Arithmetic and its consequences (6 comments)

Abhinav { If there is another election this year, they will likely keep all of their current seats and may well gain ... }

A new angle on House of Lords reform (3 comments)

Abhinav { The House of Lords must be reformed. As an initial, self-contained reform, not dependent on further reform in the future, ... }

The Barders of Krakow and London in the 18th century (5 comments)

V9Poker { Great post. “I have an almost complete set of photos of the south and north banks of the river between ... }
Sarah Wray { Hello. My name is Sarah i am the grandaughter of John Barder. Brother of Sam Barder. So Donald Barder and ... }

The Quartly Engravers (3 comments)

Hilda McDonnell { My mother's printer / compositor grandfather James or Jim Foster (b. Bethnal Green 1839-d. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1916) emigrated to ... }

Syria: myths and omissions (with personal postscript) (8 comments)

xMarine1066 { Brain Now that more information on the staged Chemical Attack have come to the for, maybe a follow-up artical on ... }

A scandalous injustice: 4,614 IPPs stranded indefinitely in our prisons, 77% of them for crimes... (12 comments)

John Worboys case shone light on IPP injustice | Letter – My Thoughts { […] he wrote in June 2016: “Since it is inherently impossible to prove a future negative, few IPPs have managed ... }
John Worboys case shone light on IPP injustice | Letter – Updates on Law Matters { […] he wrote in June 2016: “Since it is inherently impossible to prove a future negative, few IPPs have managed ... }
John Worboys case shone light on IPP injustice | Letter – My Ramblings { […] he wrote in June 2016: “Since it is inherently impossible to prove a future negative, few IPPs have managed ... }
John Worboys case shone light on IPP injustice | Letter – Law Blog { […] he wrote in June 2016: “Since it is inherently impossible to prove a future negative, few IPPs have managed ... }

More heresies on the election arithmetic and the manifestos (9 comments)

Peter Martin { @Brian, You say: <em>"And secondly, my rough guess is that 10 per cent or more of the votes cast for ... }
Brian { Brian replies to Peter Martin: I don't accept for a minute that criticism of the leader of the Labour party, ... }

Was the 2016 Brexit referendum binding on parliament or the government? Answer: No. (5 comments)

Peter Martin { I suppose the key concession would have to be on freedom of movement. By far the majority of people in ... }
Kevin Jones { Cameron was dead meat by the time he tried to get concessions from the EU and May is going about ... }
William Spurgeon { I think the EU is prepared to make concessions - in fact, it made concessions to Cameron on migrants' benefits ... }
Acilius { The referendum was a paradoxical idea from the start. Leave was always going on about the importance of Britain's constitutional ... }
Peter Martin { I don't believe it would be too hard to get a majority for staying in the EU, but there would ... }

Margaret Annie Wood (3 comments)

Don Knibbs { Thanks for sharing all of that information. I'm related to Sarah's husband, Edwin George Knibbs. }