I went to the launch of Phillip Blond’s ResPublica think tank and had a parallel but very different shock to Guy Aitchison at the London Citizens at the Barbican.
Tony Blair once described Jack Straw as a "tart". Takes one to know one? Anyway, there seems to be nothing a tart delights in more than teasing us
The future of Britain is at stake as the country heads towards an election year: a recent Scottish by-election gave Labour a surprising majority. Anthony Barnett takes this as the starting point for an exchange with Gerry Hassan on where a country with many parliaments is heading.
The long time Labour MP for Nottingham North issues a bitter, swinging assessment of the pernicious collusion of government and media that is strangling parliamentary democracy in Britain
I have just seen this and it seems all the more relevant today. No doubt if they try it again, it will be tasered first!
The EU is developing a full spectrum dominance system of surveillance combing domestic and military, according to a new report
Gareth Young invited me to ‘The Future of England’. A debate that followed the annual general meeting of the Campaign for an English Parliament. In plucky fashion it was held
Watch Dispatches on Channel 4 this evening at 8pm. Peter Oborne presents a brave expose of the British lobby in the UK. Not that they do anything illegal, just that
Yesterday I listened to the radio adaption of David Edgar's play about 1989 The Shape of the Table. You can hear it for the coming week here on
As the left across Europe flounders in the wake of the economic crisis, the Greek socialist party under George Papandreou could prove the exception with its dramatic election victory. His aim is nothing less than a pioneering form of progressive government that combines green development, democrat
An excerpt from Anthony Barnett's Guardian commentary
