Brexit

• Reluctant European - Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit

  Review for Leeds Library Magazine, Speaks Volumes, July 2021

• The Failure of the 2016 Referendum

  Why the 2016 EU referendum was flawed and not legitimate. (Revised June 2019)

• Europe is a Foreign Country

  Published in AsPerceived Quarterly, No.2, February 2017

• Out on a Pack of Lies - the miss-sold referendum has to be rejected

  Extended version of article in Liberator 381, November 2016

Campaigning

• Why we need the T V Harrison sports ground

  Article in Yorkshire Evening Post, February 2021

• Effective Lobbying Strategies

  A guide for NGOs

• Des Strategies Efficaces de Groupes de Pression

  Lobbying paper for NGOs in French

Green issues

• Leeds Bradford Airport expansion - the wrong place and the wrong time

  Article in Yorkshire Post, 30 January 2021

• Letter to a Green Party colleague

  The Green Party v. a green movement. March 2000

Elections and electoral issues

• An Independent Electoral Register is Crucial

  Answer to ERS comment, THe Guardian 27 June 2024

• Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism - Preferential Decision-making for an Inclusive Democracy

  Review published in Liberator 401, June 2020

• The Politics of Electoral Reform

  4th edition of this important work looking at the different electoral systems.

• Four Shades of Developing Democracy

  Published in AsPerceived Quarterly, No.1, November 2016

• STV in French

  Comment submitted to the enquiry on electoral reform in Mauritius

• Electoral Malpractice

  Review published in Party Politics magazine, 2014

• A no vote for referendums

  Article in The Northerner, The Guardian, 26 April 2012

• Rattling Chamberlain's ghost

  History shows that we need proper powers for local councils, rather than directly elected mayors, to get things done. Article for The Northerner, The Guardian, 11 April 2012

• Democracy - The Missing Element

  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

• 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

  Paper in French, 2004

• European Commission Conference on Electoral Assistance and Observation Projects, Brussels 28 & 29 September 2004

  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 200 2

• Absentee Voting

  A paper for the Integrity Foundation roundtable, 8 January 2002

• Electoral preparations, campaigns and aftermath in the 2001 election in Zambia

  Paper for the Integrity Foundation roundtable, 8 January 2002

• New Democracies - underpinned or undermined

  2nd Dame Penelope Jessel Memorial Lecture, John Stuart Mills Institute - 8th March 2001

• Governance

  Notes for a speech given at an International IDEA Seminar, 1999

• Politics and democracy

  Paper produced for Seminar in Indonesia, September 1999

• The Democracy Industry

  Draft Chapter for a book on Indonesia Elections 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

• Cause and Effect - the background to Hamas terrorism

  Article in the Yorkshire Post, 25 October 2023

• The Bangladesh Liberation Struggle

  Written for the National Committee for Honouring Foreign Nationals in the Liberation of...

• Its own worst enemy - Israel's strategy towards the Palestinians will prove a disaster for both peoples

  Article for Liberator May 2007

• Losing a winner - where are the Lib Dems now?

  Article on Iraq for Liberator, September 2005

• Iraq briefing for the Liberal Party

  March 2003

• Letter re Iraq to Le Président de la République Française (in French)

  February 2003

• Letter re Iraq to M. Dominique de Villepin, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères (in French)

  February 2003

• The Politics of Disaster

  Article for Liberator, 20 September 2001

Law and order

• Terrorism

  Letter to the Guardian, 31st December 2003

• Identity cards

  Article for Liberty News, 30 November 2003

Political issues

• The Politics of Homelessness

  Paper for Turning Lives Around, February 2020

• The Political Lives of Postwar British MPs - An Oral History of Parliament

  Review for Liberator, 2020

• The Labour Party in Opposition 1970-1974

  Review for Journal of Liberal History

• Anti-Semitism in the early Labour Party

  Memo from Michael Meadowcroft to Shami Chakrabarti

• The Death and Life of Local Democracy

  Speech given at Sherdil lunch, Bradford, 26 January 2016

• Deceived Again - David Blunkett is no advocate for the high calling of politics

  Review for Liberator, November 2012

• The politics of extremism

  Article on the BNP for Liberator, May 2009

• The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives Sources since 1945

  Review in Representation, Vol. 43, No. 2, July 2007

• Michael Howard - it's only make believe

  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

• The concept of what is a good party

  Paper given at a 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

• Local Autonomy and Local Policy in Party Philosophy

  Paper given at a joint international seminar in Seoul, South Korea, November 1988.

• Pluralism and peace policy

  Extended version of the seminar paper given at The School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 12 January 1981

See Michael here in a video on Land Value Taxation, presented by Fred Harrison.