Broad Oak Magazine

Tony Benn, 27 May 1975 Congratulations and thanks to The Boiling Frog for scanning a 1976 study of the previous year's Common Mark...

One way in which the voting system is skewed is the disproportion between the size of the electorates in our member nations and number of th...

Whether the current voting system is broken or running fine, depends on your point of view. For the Tories it seems to be going swimmingly. ...

"Red Ed" was urged to do it two years ago , now Cam . Hitchens says (or did, before he was taken off the paperwaves) the same co...

A year ago, Iain Dale passed on a claim that the EU could block Cameron's promised 2017 referendum under the new "qualified majori...

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? No, I haven't, and I didn't know his name until I looked him up by his job . Yet he and his committee...

In the General Election campaign of 1970, Alan Aldridge designed a controversial poster showing plasticine models of the Conservative Cabine...

Craig Murray , on his unsuccessful attempt to become an SNP Parliamentary candidate for Westminster: "I was asked at assessment wheth...

2.25 million Catalans voted in an independence "opinion poll" yesterday, and over 80% said both yes to becoming an autonomous stat...

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It is being said that President Obama is over-fond of issuing decrees in the form of Executive Orders. The answer is yes - and no. The gra...

I suppose it's reasonable to believe that when you're browsing the comment sections of blogs, interactive media or Facebook that yo...

'It seems a shame,' the Walrus said, 'To play them such a trick, After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so...

After all the fuss I make about the right to decide, I thought I'd look at General Election results in my own constituency. No wonder MP...

Following the Czech ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, there's excitement over the widened split in the Conservative Party and the possi...

Last night I watched a Horizon programme about black holes. Experts don't understand them, and every galaxy has a giant one in the middl...

Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal Hitchens (1): A great grey Tower of Babel reaches up into the sky over Europ...

BBC economic journalist Robert Peston recently professed himself "nauseous" on reading of the paltry £9 million per head earned by...

Plenty has been said about the EU and how it rules us, withour ever having had our consent to do so. But equally, our daily lives are govern...

I've just watched Daniel Hannan's address to Americans on the dangers of a nationalised healthcare system. I, too, want America to c...