I’m conscious that I have been neglecting the blog. A combination of commitments and marking has meant that what little time I have had available has been devoted to research. I am working on three research projects, or rather four but three have submission deadlines that are not that far away. All three are related to…
Last year, in order to mark the centenary of the passage of the Parliament Act 1911, the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, organised a series of lectures on great parliamentarians. Each was delivered by a parliamentarian and broadcast by BBC Parliament. I gave the lecture on Enoch Powell. At the end of the series,…
Amidst the essay and exam marking over the past few weeks, I was also busy working on a lecture on Enoch Powell, one of the most controversial politicians of the latter half of the 20th Century as well as a distinguished parliamentarian. The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has organised a series of lectures…
