Stuart Weir - openDemocracy (Page 14)

The BBC was right on BNP - it is our political class who have been complacent

Stuart Weir's letter to the Guardian

By Stuart Weir

/ 26 Oct 2009

War without end, amen

For an informed and sceptical take on the Afghanistan war, see Paul Rogers' many columns on the subject in his weekly openDemocracy commentary Yet another British casualty in the

By Stuart Weir

/ 19 Oct 2009

Our new Tory Lords?

What does Sir Richard Dannatt, the former Chief of the Defence Staff who is to be David Cameron's military adviser with a seat in the House of Lords,

By Stuart Weir

/ 16 Oct 2009

The unspoken constitution

Today, to mark the return of MPs and Peers to Parliament, Democratic Audit have published a satirical pamphlet that sets out to describe how our unspoken constitution would look if

By Stuart Weir and Stuart Wilks-Heeg

/ 12 Oct 2009

Ireland's Lisbon vote: the reality

They are stripping Dublin’s tall and elegant lamp-posts of the YES and NO placards that climbed in batches of up to five more than halfway up each post. But

By Stuart Weir

/ 6 Oct 2009

The Labour conference and the return of Mandelson

Peter Mandelson was long thought of as a devious and graceless politician. Now he is a celebrity. Shenanigans on the yachts of plutocrats are part of his new status, but

By Stuart Weir

/ 2 Oct 2009

A New World: Paine at the Globe

A quick word on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Paine’s death. Trevor Griffiths’s magnificent play in celebration of Paine’s life, A New World, is playing in repertory

By Stuart Weir

/ 21 Sep 2009

High Court ruling won't stop the control order regime

You may well have been reassured by the recent media reports that that the “government's anti-terror strategy” had suffered a blow after the High Court ruling last week

By ourKingdom editors and Stuart Weir

/ 6 Aug 2009

The elephants of Phirilongwe Forest

The American-based International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is a well-respected international organisation that seeks to preserve and enhance the security of wild animals. Among its backers have been celebrities

By Stuart Weir

/ 2 Jul 2009

Remembering Professor Peter Townsend

An inspiring scholar of poverty leaves a rich legacy

By Stuart Weir

/ 23 Jun 2009

What the Butler saw

Fancy that, a Labour Prime Minister coming under withering criticism from Lord Butler, the Lord High Chamberlain of government secrecy, for not being properly open in his (and let it

By Stuart Weir

/ 18 Jun 2009

Faith in the system at record low shows new poll

How far has people's faith in the way we are governed been shaken by Brown's fumbling and dishonest governance, civil liberties outrages, and expenses fiddles in

By Stuart Weir

/ 18 Jun 2009