Today Venezuela goes to the polls for a referendum. The referendum is on amending the constitution to remove term limits for elected officials. Personally, I am unsympathetic to term limits. Elections themselves should be the way of limiting people's time in office. If people don't want someone to be elected for a 3rd term then they can choose to vote against them when the election comes around. I...

First of all a couple of events you might like to pop into your busy diary; Sunday, March 1 Change: Yes we can't! Comedy night with Peyvand Khorsandi and Hils Barker (right) Fundraiser for Hands Off The People Of Iran (HOPI) Venue: The Library Pub, Upper Street, London Starts: 8:00pm. Cost: £8 Facebook event is here in case you want to invite your friends. You can also download the flyer here. Pl...

The latest edition of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s regular paper Solidarity has a number of interesting articles in it, not least an interview with Daniel Bensaid of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party which throws a different light on some of the failed left-of-labour projects in the UK. However I want to talk about a

At the ASI. We probably don’t want to throw the baby of eradicating poverty out with the bathwater of market froth.

Mark tells me that this is all the rage, so here goes...My middle names are Serena Isabella Caterina Grimnar - when your family has links to most other royal families, you tend to want to keep in with them...In 1957, I won the European Under-18 whitewater rafting championship, aged 8.My first pet was a marine iguana. I called him Iggy.When Ludwig and I awarded Mark the Knight Cross of Amaranth

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One of the nicer things about working here is 'special duty'. 'Special Event Policing' is a popular idea throughout North America but unheard of (to my knowledge) in the UK. The idea is that if you, as the owner of a nightclub or similar venue, have a problem with patrons or simply want to be able to provide a bit of extra security, you can hire a police officer. For an agreed sum ($82.00 per hour...

Pure genius this is... Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Finance Committee, said Mr Geithner should not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessor Hank Paulson, who "lost sight of the rest of the country and pissed them off entirely," with his initial bank bailout. Frank warned the Treasury Secretary that voters want to see fewer foreclosures and more bank lending to ordinary consu...

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday columnDoes the Government secretly want to legalise drugs, in the hope that we’ll all be too stupefied to complain about their corruption and incompetence? Certainly, governments of both major parties have behaved for...

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