Monbiot makes multiple points there, though ; budgets for monitoring at the EA have been reduced by 55% over the last ten years, prosecutions have gone down by a staggering. 98%. This is because the … (View Post)

I would say yes and no, on that. I noticed several peers, growing up, benefitting from the condition of very pushily professional and/or intellectual parents, as I did. However, I would raise some qu… (View Post)

I wouldn't really take a pro-Serb view on Kosovo, but I personally would say that I think that second war has been wrongly simplified in the Western mind into as extremely as clear a case as tha… (View Post)

The problem is that is what is current is a very facile interpretation of his views. This is quite a significant problem at the moment, on both the left and right ; at times quite sophisticated criti… (View Post)

As I've mentioned many times, the tragedy for me is that the SDP didn't win that 1983 election, because of the Falklands. The Liberals and Social Democrats would have handled all these post… (View Post)