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Paul Halsall

Paul HalsallPaul Halsall is a professional historian, interested in gender and medieval history, who just happens to be Gay, Catholic, a Democratic Socialist, and living with AIDS. Paul is now back in the UK after 20 years of teaching in the United States.

Posted on May 12, 2009 at 10:14am


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Britain must act to stop homophobic Ugandan death laws

8:53 pm, Thu 3rd Dec 2009
Britain must act to stop homophobic Ugandan death laws By Paul Halsall Everyone needs to try to raise the alarm over the Uganda effort to enact the death penalty for homosexuality. As Xan Rice in The Guardian explains: "Life...
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Our Labour government is colluding against our postal workers - and I want the CWU to win

11:03 pm, Wed 21st Oct 2009
Our Labour government is colluding against our postal workers - and I want the CWU to win By Paul Halsall Like most people, I have only been following the issue of the postal workers' strike from the sidelines. I read the Guardian and watch the BBC just...
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The Presbyterian conscience: personality as politics

2:52 pm, Mon 8th Jun 2009
The Presbyterian conscience: personality as politics By Paul Halsall I find a 15% Labour vote on a 30% turnout just unbelievable. It means only 1 in 20 of the electorate actually voted for the government. Personally...
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Cameron, leadership and the European Union

2:41 pm, Wed 27th May 2009
By Paul Halsall David Cameron has this week been hailed for his "leadership" on a new political deal. But he ducked the central crack in his party's internal politics -...
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Open Primaries? No thanks

8:45 am, Mon 25th May 2009
By Paul Halsall The Times and now David Cameron clearly think open primaries are a good idea: "Open primaries are part of the solution. If candidates had to win the...
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Labour and the Tories leave the door open for the Lib Dems

2:24 pm, Thu 14th May 2009
By Paul Halsall Andrew MacKay's appearance on BBC News at 11:45am this morning was an utter disaster. Perhaps worse than any other MP's effort to apologise. While I don't think...
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I can't expect everything - because I can't always be sure I'm right

10:25 am, Tue 12th May 2009
By Paul Halsall / @PaulBHalsall Good on Danny Finkelstein for posting this in The Times. "Here are a few positive things I think about MPs: * I think most work...
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