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
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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
Almost as soon as the UN-sanctioned intervention to establish a no-fly-zone over Libya had begun, journalists were speculating about how long it would take Western troops to set foot in … Read the rest
I have always associated those who sign their names to letters published in the quality press with the self-regarding, solipsistic and self-consciously important chattering classes.
Well, maybe the chattering classes … Read the rest
During research for my (forthcoming, honest, Bloomsbury Press) book on how UK politics has been depicted on the stage, page and screen I have come across plenty of Top … Read the rest
Academics, politicians and public policy makers have long been criticised for not talking to each other about socially relevant issues. On the one side, academics are often criticised for remaining … Read the rest
Ballots & Bullets has only been going a couple of weeks but we have already created a back catalogue of tip top analysis and comment, all of which is backed … Read the rest
From Tahir Square in Cairo to the shanty towns of Soweto, resistance to economic, political and social marginalisation in the global south is being increasingly feminised.
According to some this … Read the rest
Winifred Holtby’s South Riding (1936) was that rare literary beast, a novel about, as the author put it, ‘the drama of English local government’; she dedicated it to her mother, … Read the rest