Charles Falconer Articles

Politicians have always been a loathed race apart, as King Lear (‘scurvy politicians’) and Abraham Lincoln (‘one step removed from honest men’) indicated. Peter Riddell’s book argues that current British politicians are generally well motivated, but have not been at their best in defending themselves from the excesses of the hardcore abusers in the expenses scandal.

Charlie Falconer reviews Peter Mandelson’s ‘The Third Man’ and finds there is much more in both his and Brown and Blair’s achievements that is lost in this account from inside the heart of New Labour.

Ahead of tonight’s Red Wedge event, Charlie Falconer says the government is being led astray by an agenda of ‘human rights only for those we like’ and suggests the Lib Dems may never recover from giving up on their own values