The 37th Corbishley Lecture will be delivered by Lord John Alderdice on “Faith, Belief and Fundamentalism” on Monday 19 October 2015 will be in the basement Conference Hall of Mary …
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A last word, I hope, on the row about the Daily Mail’s published attack on Ralph Miliband, the late father of Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour party. A previous …
The political news last week was dominated by a row between a leading politician and a national newspaper over whether the politician’s late father had hated Britain. The newspaper said …
A nation, famously, is a group of people who think of themselves as a nation. They may have other things in common – a language, a religion, a state – …
This blog reported a year ago on the prospect that the redrawn constituency boundaries for the House of Commons would provoke disputes based on identity. Now that the Boundary Commission …
Letter published in the Jewish Chronicle, 26 August 2011 Geoffrey Alderman’s reference to Norway in his discussion of the proposed new language law in Israel is more relevant than he …
One of the planks of the coalition government’s platform is to reduce the number of members of the House of Commons and redraw the boundaries so that each constituency has …
Jonathan Guthrie writes in the Financial Times about the problems faced by towns and cities once the economic reason for their prosperity goes into decline. Cities in the north of …
There was an interesting comment yesterday in the debate about the government’s green paper on a new Bill of Rights. Justice secretary Jack Straw introduced the debate, with a proposal …
The dispute about Italian and Portuguese workers having jobs at a power station in Lincolnshire highlights the issue of labour mobility within the EU. One of the fundamental principles of …
