The TUC March for the Alternative in London resulted in a story that’s all too familiar. You’ve heard it a hundred times: a minority of anarchists spoiling an otherwise peaceful, … Read the rest
Month: March 2011
Kay Burley is one of the top presenters on Sky News. That means she is a person of influence. If you get Sky News.
Ms Burley has just published a … Read the rest
Many people like to think that they are living through unique times, with new problems and challenges. Yet they are often merely playing out issues identified centuries ago – as … Read the rest
For those confused by the many arguments being bandied around over the merits or otherwise of the Alternative Vote, the Political Studies Association have just released a short, and relatively … Read the rest
How coherent are the arguments provoked by the no-fly zone over Libya?
I teach ‘Air Power and Modern Conflict’ to MA students studying International Relations at Nottingham. This critically … Read the rest
As the fiscal fallout from the global financial crisis continues to reverberate around the world, politicians are once more falling back on market-based remedies.
In Britain, the government has ramped … Read the rest
Less than a month after its champagne launch, Ballots & Bullets has created an ever-growing back catalogue of tip top analysis and comment, all of which is informed by internationally … Read the rest
In 2007 the US ABC network offered a ‘sincere apology’ to the Philippine medical community. The apology followed a comment made in the TV series Desperate Housewives by … Read the rest
The vote of John Baron, the Conservative MP for Basildon and Billericay, against military action in Libya was an unusual thing. As we noted in an earlier post, it … Read the rest
Eight years ago, in March 2003, some 139 government MPs voted against the decision to invade Iraq, along with dozens of abstentions. It was the largest backbench rebellion on any … Read the rest