30 June 2005
ID CARDS, ID SCHMARDS
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Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 1 July 2005 I know columnists are supposed to have trenchant opinions about everything, but I just can’t ge...
9 June 2005
SUBMERGED BY MARKING
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It's that time of year again.
5 June 2005
MAKE PROTECTIONISM HISTORY
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Has anyone come up yet with any position better than (genuine, aka no CAP or textile or steel protectionism) free trade? I only ask.
2 June 2005
THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE - 8
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I wouldn't quite endorse everything that Timothy Garton Ash has to say in the Guardian today, (read it here ), but it's close to the...
BEAT THIS . . .
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Bob Woodward tells loads we didn't know about the Watergate story – the greatest scoop of the past century – in the Washington Post her...
1 June 2005
THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE - 7
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The Dutch have voted "no" too, which makes it pretty much inconceivable that the Brits will hold a referendum, which means that th...
30 May 2005
THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE – 6
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And another thing . . . The French “no” shows that self-indulgence remains a powerful force on the left in France. In 2002, left protest-v...
THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE – 5
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The “no” victory in the French referendum on the EU constitution cannot have come as much of a surprise to anyone, although the margin was r...
STALIN’S PROPAGANDIST
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Patrick Cockburn has a fascinating account of MI5’s surveillance of his father Claud in the Independent today , extracted from his memoir o...
29 May 2005
THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE - 4
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Glyn Morgan has an excellent piece in the Independent on Sunday here saying what I thought had become the unsayable: what's wrong with...
28 May 2005
THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE - 3
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With characteristic clarity, John Palmer puts the left case for a yes vote in the French and Dutch referendums on the European constitution ...
27 May 2005
NO TO THE ACADEMIC BOYCOTT– 4
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The emergency conference of the Association of University Teachers today voted by a large-ish majority – it wasn't a card vote, so no nu...
24 May 2005
DEFINING MOMENTS
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Blimey. Ann Clwyd has been narrowly elected chair of the parliamentary Labour Party (click here ) – I thought she'd lose. Which goes to...
SCHROEDER’S PREDICAMENT
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The German Social Democrats’ defeat in the North Rhine-Westphalia Land election on Sunday was not unexpected, but its scale was – and now Ge...
NO TO THE ACADEMIC BOYCOTT – 3
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Time has passed since my last post on this ( here ) but I've not changed my mind, and now I'm going to the university lecturers'...
23 May 2005
THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE - 2
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The Independent has an excellent interview with Dany Cohn-Bendit here in which the now 60-year-old former student revolutionary makes some...
20 May 2005
GOTTA GET OUTTA THIS PLACE
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Mark Seddon, my illustrious successor as Tribune editor, has a piece in the Guardian today headlined "Eighteen months to save Labour...
19 May 2005
I'M FED UP – BUT I'LL SURVIVE
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Yeah, I know there's lots of stuff going on, but I can't be bothered today. One reason only . . . As we used to sing in the 1970...
18 May 2005
THIS SHOW WILL RUN AND RUN
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Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 20 May 2005 Sure, it was great theatre, with a bravado performance from the leading actor. You certainly h...
THE BIG LIE? - 8
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Very busy, so considered thoughts on the Galloway hearing will have to wait until later. For now, though, I'm amazed that in this day a...
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