Stuart Weir

Articles by Stuart Weir

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Promises, promises

  • 21 October 2002

An audit of new Labour's record reveals a democratic deficit at the heart of government

The quangos just grow and grow

  • 09 April 2001

Despite the promise of a people's government, the country is increasingly run by unaccountable, secretive crony networks

The great white shark of Whitehall

  • 05 February 2001

Forget about Tony Blair's "presidential" powers. It is HM Treasury that now dominates government. Its role should be diminished, argues Stuart Weir

We're all liberals now

  • 20 November 2000

Support for human rights goes far beyond the metropolitan elite, reports Stuart Weir

Dirty deeds in deepest Devon

  • 17 July 2000

Labour's latest ideas for electoral reform are a dangerous stitch-up, argues Stuart Weir

The long war against democracy

  • 10 April 2000

The real battle in Zimbabwe is not against white farmers. Mugabe's target is a black middle-class committed to modernity and rock music

We stopped Boadicea's chariot

  • 27 November 1998

Stuart Weirargues that the success of Charter 88 (aged ten this week) proves that people are not weary of democracy, just of Westminster

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

Books of the year

Our selection

Books of the Year: Part I

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