The Learned Fool politics blog maintains a chronological list of articles and features appearing on the blog.
- 2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
June 2011
May 2011
May 2010
March 2010
- Unfair laws allow rapist to remain in UK
- Is going paperless a savings?
- Who pays the price for maternity/paternity leave?
February 2010
January 2010
November 2009
September 2009
- Tests are easier, so students are smarter
- Does anyone in this government know what they're doing?
- The BBC's bullying tactics
- Hair straighteners to encourage girls to participate in PE?
- Is Osama bin Laden really ready to talk?
- Rights and Responsibilities Part 2: Travel
- Vetting volunteer parents is going overboard
- Public nudity is legal?
- Will suing the BNP accomplish anything?
August 2009
- Lesbians' rights on birth certificates is ridiculous
- Rights and Responsibilites Part 1: Healthcare
- English proficiency required
- Al-Megrahi's hero's welcome is disturbing
- Is an independent candidate the right way to go?
- Can the NHS do with some reforms?
- Big Brother strikes again
- Can atheism answer political crises?
- Will Muslims rule the world?
July 2009
- Afghanistan war should not be debated; it is equipment that should be questioned
- BBC's suspension of bonuses for executives is only one good move
- Forget the trivial bickering; have politicians been inside the NHS recently?
- Back to the drawing board, Michael O'Leary
June 2009
- Farewell, Michael Jackson
- John Bercow as Speaker
- Unprotect the Speaker position
- Useless, redundant MPs should be hired as toilet-cleaners
- Ann Widdecombe for Speaker please
- Consumer complaints amounting to advertising censorship
- North Korea belligerently continues nuclear weaponry; Iran's election fraud
- Britons clueless about basic anatomy
- Labour's child poverty plan is over-reaching
- Madonna's celebrity status wins her the adoption bid in Malawi
- Politicians show immaturity and idiocy in spending row and the BNP issue
- Lessons in politics: no appointment reviews, too many undeserved peers, bad arguments, no fixed terms, no general election, confusing public image
- Sir Alan nonpartisan? Shahid Malik innocent? Sir Peter's duck house anyone?
- BNP gets egged as protestors call for end to free speech
- The impact of the BNP, turds and more turds
- Can we get back to the business of running the country now?
- BBC needs full public disclosure
- Inadequate Home Office is real reason for Smith's resignation
- Please vote for the right reasons
- Unregulated doctors in the UK
- Rumour has it: cabinet reshuffle?
May 2009
- Three weeks on and MPs still don't get it
- Sanctions against North Korea?
- We've created a Big Brother society
- Utopia does not exist - be prepared for the worst
- Is the BBC worth the increase in license fee?
- Why are people so dumb?
- Speaker to step down
- Why fear the BNP?
- Will the members of the Fees Office show themselves?
- Who have acquitted themselves well?
- Money, money, money
- What about the public sector?
- More on "words"
- New rules for politicians cum benefits cheats
- Blow out your candles
- What are words for?
- Education reform: scrapping science Sats - good or bad?
- Are schizophrenics violent?
- List of people "banned from entering UK" is published
- Is nepotism appropriate for politics?
April 2009
- How to remove incompetent MPs?
- Torturing potential terrorists?
- Will work-week opt-out help or hurt?
- Still talking about 50p tax
- What's so bad about ID cards?
- No satisfactory answers to MPs expenses
- More benefits cheats
- Identifying Britons
- Is equal opportunity really equal?
- Compromised investigation leads to failure
- Thought control in the form of political correctness
- Obesity is now a 'green' crisis
- Protesting against protests
- Rewards or consequences for whistleblowers
- A Quick decision
- HIPs are necessary to homebuyers
- The secrecy of tax havens
- My reactions for the week
- Dignitas seeking assisted suicides for everyone
- More to-do with G20 summit protesters
March 2009
- The G20 summit protesters vs. leaders
- When the cats away, the mice will play
- Talks begin on change in monarchy laws
- Frog wedding brings on rain
- What is the purpose of having laws?
- A case of technology over-riding common sense
- Baggage handlers can't handle the baggage
- Come on, baby, light my pyre!
- How to serve immigrants who can't speak English
- Views on death and dying
- Global growth rate needs addressing
- Gobbledegook
- Student fees
- The impact of legalising prostitution
- Lost luggage caused by washing machine syndrome at airports
- Dogshit and the Demise of the English Winger
- It's Official! Iain Dale says...
- Ban on religious protests should be extended
- Lord Ahmed freed
- Chocolate tax cannot be an answer to obesity
- Muslim protesters should be deported
- Daylight Saving Time - what a bunch of baloney
- Changes in policy can save the country money
- Vatican needs to review abortion stance
- Scrap gay history month
- Slime attacks Mandelson
- The age of multiculturalism
- See! I told you it was all his fault!
- Another religious controversy
- Some statistics catch in the palate
- The issue of Jacqui Smith's home
- Another social work failure
- The Fred Goodwin Gambit
- Designer baby clinics - is it worth it?
- Strip them of knighthoods and peerages
- Feminist movement has not helped with women's rights
- BBC has questionable authority
February 2009
- Too many cheats, not enough rules
- Sir Fred Goodwin's Just Reward
- Lord Ahmed gets 12 weeks
- Child actors were not Slumdog millionaires
- Is the African crisis being ignored?
- Simon Cowell joins list of cryonics believers
- What is so special about Slumdog?
- Stricter rules for immigrants do not address full crisis
- Call to celebrities - Shop! Spend! Help!
- Did toddler really marry dog?
- Increased number of unusual accidents
- Young parents? - more to come
- When and will the economy turn around?
- Professor Nutt is a real nut
- Government needs to take social responsibility
- Children having children, a societal issue
- Discriminatory comments dripping from my tongue
January 2009
- BBC's decision not to air aid appeal is right one
- Barack Obama's lineage
- Change in monarchy laws in Britain
- Stress, not mass privatisation, is cause of increase in mortality
- Banning red ink in school
December 2008
- Obama vs. Kim Jong Il and Robert Mugabe
- Are there more gay men?
- The New Melting Pot
- Beware the Killer Ants!
