It is one thing to offer the country a compromise, but the way Britain's Coalition government is going about reform is itself compromised as gruesomely displayed in the demoralising Commons debate on the AV referendum
Should we be having a referendum on AV or is it a dangerous and pointless distraction? Anthony Barnett, who hopes for a Yes vote, locks horns with Jerome di Constanzo, a French conservative of Burkean instincts.
Continuing OK's debate over the future of the Coalition.
Rather bleary, I heard a package on the Today programme this morning with James Graham saying that join press conferences, such as yesterday's with Chris Huhne and Barnoness
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How can we move forward from the crash of neoliberalism given the exhaustion of socialism?
How should the 'Yes' campaign in the coming referendum pitch its case for 'AV'?
The second of a wide-ranging three part conversation, touching on the state of British politics and democracy and how the left - weak and disorganised in the face of a resurgent neoliberalism - can propose and build alternatives to the dominant dogmas of the past thirty years.
In the first of a wide-ranging three part conversation, Anthony Barnett and Gerry Hassan discuss the state of British politics and democracy and how the left - weak and disorganised in the face of a resurgent neoliberalism - can propose and build alternatives to the dominant dogmas of the past thi
With the Coalition government rushing forward while simultaneously seeking to preserve and contain, what matters is not just whether there is a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ vote in the AV referendum, but also the way in which the outcome comes about.
A BBC documentary on the creation of the UK's Coalition poses some interesting questions about what happened.
