The LRB is very unpredictable. From insights you won't find anywhere else, to the most laborious arcana. Almost an academic journal equivalent of early 1980's Channel 4 or late 1980s BBC2, … (View Post)

Very much so. If Hashim Thaci, and also eventually other members of the KLA too, are convicted at the Hague, it will also show that this transcendent legal principle can even be stronger in the long-… (View Post)

Not refusal of entry, EU detention. (View Post)

What a wonderful image of the new model Britain. Italians, French, Bulgarians, Spaniards, Portugese and Greeks sitting in prisons and detention centres. It will also do wonders for the necessities of… (View Post)

It could work as a semi-detached coalition for PR. A split is only of any use whatsoever to both the left and centre-left if it isn't uncontrolledly acrimonious and terms are agreed beforehand. … (View Post)