Leading figures from Sinn Féin, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness will be in London next Saturday (Feb 20) for a conference on Irish unity at TUC Congress House.
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As the BBC political correspondent, Nicholas Jones incurred Alastair Campbell’s enmity by objecting to his underhand deployment of spin. Here he finds Campbell’s deputy still spinning off-the-record
An OurKingdom conversation. [History: Stuart Weir > this post > Stuart Weir > Andy White > Stuart Weir]
Stuart Weir yesterday criticised the Electoral Reform Society for leading “a foolish
Readers outside Scotland may not have noticed that the young, 39 year old deputy leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, has got herself into trouble. It is one
The director general of MI5 writes an impassioned defence of his service, denying allegations of lying to Parliament. Yemen signs a truce with the al Houthi insurgents. Ahmedinejad hails Iran as a ‘nuclear state.’ China protests over Dalai Lama meeting with President Obama. All this and more, in t
Pledges for Progress from the Institute of Ideas
David Rickard proposes a Multi-Candidate First Past the Post system
Operation Moshtarak a crucial test for Obama’s Afghan war strategy. Protestors clash in Sri Lankan capital. Sudan-Chad deal raises hope for an end to Darfur insecurity. Israeli warplanes bomb southern Gaza. Iran makes arrests before revolution rally. British judges order release of secret torture
British conservatives claim that the tax system penalises marriage and that this is responsible for social break down. Simon McMahon finds the first claim fair, but the second less so
I hope very much that those MPs now facing the prospect of prosecution for the way in which they ‘managed’ their parliamentary expenses do claim immunity because, as MPs, they
Dissension over the legality of the Iraq war, and the history of western military interventions since 1945, reveals the paucity of international law's moral underpinnings. The article continues our series Lest we forget: remembering historic conflicts, openSecurity’s new editorial project in assoc
Charlie Baker, who has worked for regeneration cooperative URBED in cities across northern England, looks at the causes of prejudice and segregation in Britain’s racial hotspots
