Books

Jon Bright (London, OK): A copy of Nick Inman's entertaining Politipedia dropped through our inbox the other day, and seems worth a plug. A reference tome for UK politics, it gives encyclopedia style entries on all things UK and political. I immediately flicked through to the pages on the constitution, which unsurprisingly ref Bagehot more than a few times.

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I think it is important to take a step back from the Cameron/Osborne triumph in facing down Gordon Brown and ask what is going on behind the the febrile swings of opinion. As recent readers will know I'm reading Peter Oborne's The Triumph of the Political Class. One of his theses is that the,