Michael Foot, Labour's leader from 1980 to 1983, died this week. For all his personal qualities his passionate loyalty to the traditions of the Labour Party were a disaster for Britain.
Is an English Backlash emerging? the IPPR asked in a report out this week. The answer provided by Professor John Curtice was heavily qualified, but it suggests that the English
The Digital Economy Bill now before the Lords is a matter of grave concern. The concern centres on two questions: what rights we should assign to ‘intellectual property’, and how
Gordon Brown’s role in the Iraq war will come under focus today when he gives evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. We can gain perspective on this by considering the two British foreign policy disasters of the last century, Munich and Suez
A farewell to Minister of Justice Michael Wills
A leading lawyer sums it up, Britain's attack on Iraq was illegal
A review of Christopher Harvie's new look
The exclusion of the SNP from the UK's prime ministerial debates
The BBC is not just one of Britain’s best-loved institutions, but also one of its most political. After a year of sniping from both Labour and Conservative front
In the first of two reviews of the former lord chief justice’s book on the rule of law, John Jackson discusses the issue of its compatibility with the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty
According to the ever useful Open Europe press summary Germany's constitutional court has ruled that its country's interpretation of EU rules on data retention breach its
Political representation and diversity
