Paul Barker
Articles by paul barker
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Society
Hello, Ken. Goodbye, Oxford Street
- 07 June 2004
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?
Politics
Be afraid, be very afraid . . . of gum on the pavement and graffiti on the wall
- 18 November 2002
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
Politics
Sorry, but we don't want to live in flats
- 30 September 2002
Ken Livingstone's vision for London is yet another example of how planners resist giving people the kind of housing they really want
Politics
A long wait on Alexanderplatz
- 19 February 2001
A personal account of the frustrations of NHS queues
Politics
Sorry, but this is the working class
- 25 September 2000
Loony tunes? Fascists? Paul Barker laments the left's snobbery towards the fuel tax protesters
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Who's afraid of the class system?
- 19 June 2000
Britain is now much more meritocratic than it gets credit for
Politics
Let people live where they wish
- 13 March 2000
Paul Barker argues that John Prescott's attempts to restrict new house-building are wrong
Society
The New Statesman Profile - Southwark borough
- 13 December 1999
Once the stupidest borough in London, it is now a model of Blairite enterprise for a new Britain. The London borough of Southwark profiled
Books
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
- 13 December 1999
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
Politics
For the sake of the Lumley five
- 29 November 1999
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"
