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4 November

501  Chris Rowe - my correspondence and tutorial with mother-of-five student

502  Blair wrongfooted in spat with Jacques Chirac, unsettled by French initiatives

503  Labour flunks the Housing Test, inadequate supplies of new housing

504  Gender Selection: Don't prohibit, Regulate!

11 November

505  Too little new housing, under Labour

506  The Estelle Inheritance - socialism embraces individualism, with social advance

507   Pupil Assessment of Teachers, a valuable peripheral element in school appraisal

508    What Lula wants, Lula gets - Socialist victory in Brazil

509    Keeping busy, with the vital task of governing ourselves

510    Mayoral Games - Labour's failure with "Elected Mayors"

511    Poor Burrell, we should pity him, The Queen is not guilty

512    Unmarried Adoption? Liberal pitfalls

513    What's in a name? Hrothgar Habakkuk. as top Oxford Professor

514    More Thoughts on the Housebuilding Business, what needs to be done

515    Patagonian Toothfish, leading Administrative Law case

516    Mandate Shmandate, my rejection of the mandate doctrine

517    Central bankers, no longer in the script

518    Death by Drone, US war crime in Yemen

519    Asylum law in grave disarray, need for radical reform

520    Radical Rail Action, how to make PFI work

521    Regional Devolution: internationa dimensions and comparisons

522    Ecole Nationale D'Administration - these great institutions must be retained!

523    Walwyn-Jones & Mendoza, a Rent Act precedent only

13 November

524    Blairism: a flawed liberal philosophy

525    London Congestion Memo to Ken Livingstone: Use paper tickets

526    Disarmed Services, devastating criticism of Euro-forces by NATO Chief

527    No fool like an old fool: Giscard D'Estaing's mistaken judgment on EU membership for Turkey

528    Workers' Rights, not Union Rights

529    Queens Speech: The theme is political vacuousness, unprincipled pragmatism

530    Has Blair created a "Government Party", abandoning ideological politics?

531    Foundation Hospitals: they could be a great idea..  

20 November

532    Don't top up, pay up: in favour of a Graduate Tax for higher education

533    Wonderful Water: Happy report of improved Middle East water-processing

534    Labour's "New Localism" is flawed, disingenuous - but real localism would work

535    Pay inequalities: the old irrationalities surface again, with the firemen's strike

25 November

536    Grey Power, powerless - the ineffectiveness of the pensioner lobby

537    Forest v ASH: We are no good at "assessing risk" fairly or sensibly

538    UK House Prices, are they too high? My own professional assessment

539    Germany, Japan: Their weak economies threaten us too

540     Limiting Limited Liability: part of international company law reform

541     5,000 Bean Counters, international Auditors Convention: But company problems lie elsewhere

542     Governments v. Corporations: There is a New Deal to be struck

543     Anguished Labour Activists - Lord Williams, Mark Seddon, Michael Jacobs

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