Current affairs

• Why we need the T V Harrsion sports ground
  Article in Yorkshire Evening Post, 27 February 2021
• Effective lobbying strategies 
  Latest Version
• Des Strategies Efficaces de Groupes de Pression 
  Lobbying paper in French 

Ecology

• Leeds Bradford Airport - the wrong place and the wrong time
  Article in Yorkshire Post, 30 January 2021
• Letter to a Green Party colleague

Electoral issues

• Review of "Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism" by Peter Emerson
  Published in Liberator 401, June 2020
• The Politics of Electoral Reform
  4th edition, published by Beecroft Publications, July 2016
• STV in French
  Comment submitted to the enquiry on electoral reform in Mauritius
• Review of book "Electoral Malpractice" by Sarah Birch
  Published in Party Politics
• A no vote for referendums
  The Northerner, The Guardian, 26 April 2012
• Rattling Chamberlain's ghost
  The Northerner, The Guardian, 11 April 2012
• Commentary on article in The Exile journal 9 December 2011, on 1996 Russian election
• Democracy - The Missing Element
  A review of essays published by DAGGER 2009 in Liberator, November 2009
• Zimbabwe - the tangled web
  Article in Liberator, November 2008
• Zimbabwe - ballots and bullets
  Article in Liberal Democrat News, 20 June 2008
• Kenya - Election parallels with Zambia?
  Article in Liberal Democrat News, 11 January 2008
• Congo hovers on the brink
  Article on Congo elections for Liberator, September 2006
• Big Brother is teaching us
  Article on Big Brother viewers and the 2005 General Election for Liberator, July 2006
• Benign Benin
  Article on the Benin elections for Liberator, April 2006
• Response to the Declaration of Principles of International Election Observation and Code of Conduct for International Election Observers, November 2005
• The check is not in the post!
  Article on postal voting fraud for Liberator, June 2005
• The melting mandate
  Article on electoral reform for Red Pepper, June 2005
• Why the military and the police should register and vote 
  Paper in English, 16 December 2004 
• Les raisons pour lesquelles les militaires et les policiers devraient voter 
  Above paper in French, 16 December 2004
• European Commission Conference on Electoral Assistance and Observation Projects 
  Paper written for the conference in Brussels on 28 & 29 September 2004
• Glimmers in the dark
  Article on the Congo for Liberator, September 2004
• Africa votes 
  Article on elections in Zimbabwe and Zambia written for Liberator, September 2002
• The downhill path in Zambia 
  Article on Zambian election for Liberator, March 2002
• The election that might have been 
  Article on Zambian election for South Africa Human Rights review, February 2002
• Electoral preparations, campaigns and aftermath in election 2001 in Zambia
  A paper for the Integrity Foundation roundtable, 8 January 2002
• Absentee voting
  A paper for the Integrity Foundation roundtable, 8 January 2002
• New democracies - underpinned or undermined 
  2nd Dame Penelope Jessel memorial lecture, John Stuart Mills Institute - 8 March 2001
• Politics and democracy
  Paper given at a seminar in Indonesia, 1999
• The democracy industry
  Draft chapter for a book on Indonesia's elections, 1999
• Governance 
  Notes for a speech given at an International IDEA Seminar, 1999
• PR hits Cambodia
  Article on the Cambodian elections for Liberator, September 1998
• Cambodia's agony as the bullets fly
  Article on Cambodia for Liberator, September 1997
• South Africa's delicate progress
  Article on the South African elections for Liberator, November 1994

Foreign affairs

• The Bangladesh Liberation Struggle
  Account written for the National Committee for Honouring Foreign Nationals in the Liberation of Bangladesh
• Its own worst enemy - Israel's strategy towards the Palestinians will prove a disaster for both peoples  
  Article for Liberator May 2007

      Iraq:

• Losing a winner - where are the Lib Dems now?
  Article on Iraq for Liberator, September 2005
• Briefing for the Liberal Party 
  March 2003
• Letter to M. Dominique de Villepin, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères  (in French) 
  February 2003
• Letter to M Jacques Chirac Le Président de la République Française (in French) 
  February 2003
• The politics of disaster 
  Article for Liberator, 20 September 2001

Law and order

• Immigration 
  Letter to Nick Robinson following Immigration programme on BBC2 January 2014
• Terrorism 
  Letter to Guardian, 31st December 2003
• Identity cards 
  Article for Liberty News, 30 November 2003

Liberalism - current

All articles on Liberalism are now on the Liberalism page.

Music

Articles on Jazz for Clarinet and Saxophone magazine are now on the Jazz pages.

Political issues

• The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs - An Oral History of Parliament
  A review for Liberator, 2020
• The Politics of Homelessness
  Paper for Turning Lives Around, February 2020
• The Death and Life of Local Democracy
  Speech given at the Sherdil lunch, Bradford, 26 January 2016
• Social mobility - on the spot
  The Northerner, The Guardian, 30 May 2012
• Diversity in Danger: Pluralism and Policy Development
  A study for the Policy Studies Institute, 1989, revised 2009
• The politics of extremism
  Article on the BNP for Liberator, May 2009
• Howard's Way 
  Article for Liberator, 21 January 2004
• The secular state and the fundamentalist challenge
  Proposal for a project. 2003
• Means and ends
  Article for Liberator, December 1999
• What is a good party? 
  Paper given at Civic Education trainers' seminar in Jakarta, Indonesia, 1999
• Red in tooth and claw
  Michael's "State of the Nation" address for 1995 for Liberator, September 1995
• Pluralism and peace policy
  An extended version of the seminar paper given at The School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 12 January 1989
• Local Government - Local Autonomy and Local Policy in Party Philosophy (pdf)
  Paper given at a Joint International Seminar in Seoul, Korea, November 1988
• The other debate at Drummond - The Ray Honeyford case and the long-term implications for representative democracy(pdf)
  "Bradford headteacher Ray Honeyford expressed right wing views in an obscure journal. These included opinions critical of multicultural education. He ran a good school, popular with Asian pupils and their parents. He was eventually pressured into taking early retirement." Nov 1985