New Statesman - <![CDATA[Paul Barker]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/paul_barker en <![CDATA[Hello, Ken. Goodbye, Oxford Street]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200406070021 http://www.newstatesman.com/200406070021 Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker D-Day - Tubes and trains are overcrowded, suburbia is ignored, and commercial areas are in decline. Four years on, has Ken Livingstone really made London a better place to live in?

]]> <![CDATA[Be afraid, be very afraid . . . of gum on the pavement and graffiti on the wall]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200211180011 http://www.newstatesman.com/200211180011 Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker Medieval handbooks laid down strict rules about spitting; today, staring may be an aggressive act. Paul Barker asks if Blair can win his war on antisocial behaviour

]]> <![CDATA[Sorry, but we don't want to live in flats]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200209300022 http://www.newstatesman.com/200209300022 Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker Ken Livingstone's vision for London is yet another example of how planners resist giving people the kind of housing they really want

]]> <![CDATA[A long wait on Alexanderplatz]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200102190017 http://www.newstatesman.com/200102190017 Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker A personal account of the frustrations of NHS queues

]]> <![CDATA[Sorry, but this is the working class]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200009250009 http://www.newstatesman.com/200009250009 Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker Loony tunes? Fascists? Paul Barker laments the left's snobbery towards the fuel tax protesters

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Essay - Who's afraid of the class system?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200006190019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200006190019 Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker Britain is now much more meritocratic than it gets credit for

]]> <![CDATA[Let people live where they wish]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200003130007 http://www.newstatesman.com/200003130007 Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker Paul Barker argues that John Prescott's attempts to restrict new house-building are wrong

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Profile - Southwark borough]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912130011 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912130011 Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker Once the stupidest borough in London, it is now a model of Blairite enterprise for a new Britain. The London borough of Southwark profiled

]]> <![CDATA[A womb without a view. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was a proud international statement. In contrast, argues Paul Barker, the Millennium Dome is a reflection of our parochial individual outlook]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912130051 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912130051 Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker The Great Exhibition of 1851 Jeffrey A Auerbach Yale University Press, 256pp, £25 ISBN 0300080077 The Great Exhibition John R Davis Sutton Publishing, 256pp, £20

]]> <![CDATA[For the sake of the Lumley five]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199911290017 http://www.newstatesman.com/199911290017 Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:00:00 GMT Paul Barker Focus on education - Paul Barkermeets one of new Labour's educational gurus and hears that comprehensives as we know them are "over and done with"

]]>