Jeremy Brier is a barrister and the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Luton North. It’s always tragic to see great, beloved institutions fall from grace. On the other hand, it’s tremendously jolly to watch farcical institutions like the Liberal Democrats belly-flop off the Bournemouth pier. Devoid of a coherent philosophy under the maladroit Nick Clegg, […]
Jeremy Brier is a barrister and the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Luton North. They scripted their terrible plot with care. Those young, jeans-clad murderers – authors of the world’s latest terrorist atrocities in India in Al Qaeda’s bloody handwriting – chose the site of their carnage to be luxurious hotels and a building belonging […]
Jeremy Brier, a Barrister and former World Debating Champion, says the Lib Dems need a purpose more than a new leader. So, Gordon Brown called off the election and another Lib Dem leader falls victim to a bottle. The question now is in which direction does the Big Yellow (Ugly) Bird wants to fly? Left […]
Jeremy Brier, a Barrister and former World Debating Champion, agrees with Jamie Oliver that school kids need to be coerced into eating school lunches. Chicken Cottage, the deep-fried-chicken take-away where both words in the name are so off the mark it must be ironic is so crammed at lunchtimes that the chickens must feel like […]
Jeremy Brier is a Barrister and former World Debating Champion. Talking about a cosy relationship with the Liberal Democrats is providing the Conservatives with lots of honey-toned mood music at the moment. It softens up a rich vein of floating voters in marginal seats and it positions the Conservative Party in the warm Centre Ground. […]
Jeremy Brier, Barrister and former World Debating Champion. Having foolishly left my bag on a tube train two nights ago (don’t worry: its most valuable contents was an invitation to the Harrow Conservatives barbecue which I reckon I can gatecrash), I felt I should helpfully alert the nearest Station Master to my oversight to prevent […]
Jeremy Brier is a Commercial Barrister, World Debating Champion and Conservative Council Candidate in Harrow West. At Law School we used to get given “problem questions”, wildly implausible factual scenarios involving naughty people doing stupid things, and we would then have to comment on what the legal issues were before us that a barrister might […]
Jeremy Brier, a barrister and blogger, examines last week’s Hamas election victory. Jeremy is a supporter of Conservative Friends of Israel and World Debating Champion for 2004-5: "There are few issues on which you can trust a BBC Question Time audience to get it more wrong than on the Middle East. In Thursday night’s discussion […]
Jeremy Brier is a barrister and former parliamentary candidate for Luton North. Ten years ago, in a Cambridge Union debate on the subject of the Middle East, I remember asking the Syrian Ambassador to the United Kingdom about the Hama Massacre, where in February 1982 the Syrian Army slaughtered tens of thousands of its own […]