I was privileged to be one of those representing Remembering Srebrenica at Holocaust Memorial Day, hosted by Birmingham City Council today. 2025 is a special year for commemoration – marking both the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the genocide near the Bosnian town of Srebrenica when over 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were …
Richard Burden
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Welcome to my website and blog.
I created it when I was Labour MP for Birmingham Northfield between 1992 and 2019, and the older posts on here date from that period.
I have continued to blog since leaving Parliament. The opening paragraphs of my blog posts appear at the bottom of this page in reverse date order. The “Read on” buttons take you to what I have written in full. My posts below also contain links to articles I have written and which have been published elsewhere, together with posts imported from my own Facebook page.
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These are the main subjects on which I’ve written. Click here to view the full list of categories.
A summary of my Parliamentary career can be found here. You can also read a bit more about who I am and what makes me tick here.
Just above my blog posts, this front page of my website also contains the text (only) of my recent posts and reposts on X (formerly Twitter). They refresh from time to time although the frequency of that is variable. I am afraid that is down to the plugin that gives the website access to X, not to me!
Here is the link to my Bluesky account, on which I also post regularly these days. Also links are here to my Threads account together with my Facebook page and LinkedIn profile.
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