PoliticsHome

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): A new website, PoliticsHome will be launched on Monday, the brainchild of Stephan Shakespeare and others it aims to up the game of the web with fast, aggregating coverage of politics. Stephan may not remember talking to me in the hubub of Carol Stone's Xmas party, but he told me it would be the "Bloomberg of politics" covering political power as seriously as Bloomberg did financial clout. Leading the service will be its PoliticsHome indicator or Phi100, which measures the daily responses of a balanced spread of political "insiders", from the front-benches of the Commons to charities and think-tanks, including yours truly. Our views are gathered, I assume anonymously (if that is ever possible on the web) in a brief, morning on-line survey, which I have found very interesting to do. It is a brilliant because an intelligently uncomfortable use of the internet. Here is one result that might interest readers of OK,