As Gordon Brown comes under increasing pressure to abandon 42 day detention ahead of Monday's crucial Lords vote, oD republishes Anthony Barnett's essay calling on Parliament
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): There are reports that gleeful Labour MPs are celebrating the Prime Minister's handling of the banking and credit crisis as a 'Falklands'
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): It is said that Satan has an icey prick. I assume that Mephistopheles, his representative on earth has similarly chilly parts and wouldn't want
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): There are rare occasions when opinion columns become reporting and break a story. Is today's Nick Cohen 'Comment' one such? It is
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Fascinating post by occasional OK contributor James Graham over on his Quaequam blog about his growing ennui and disengagement from the Lib-Dems. Even the party conference
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): As Gerry Hassan points out in his recent post on the new Labour leader in the Scottish parliament, trading life stories is becoming mandatory, It'
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In July a secret decree was signed by President Sarkozy creating an integrated database of everyone who the French state thought it might need to track
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): At the end of last month I wrote a post objecting to a phrase by A.C.Grayling. A written constitution should never be described as
openDemocracy/Russia was created last year. Two new articles on Abkazia demonstrate why it is a brilliant initiative.
The idea was that English readers around the world should be able
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): There was a short, strong overview of the threat of an authoritarian, corporate cash cow database state by A.C. Grayling in yesterday's CiF.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Tom Griffin spent a long time finding Stephen Glenn to write a post about the Lib Dem leadership contest. I'm afraid Tom didn'
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I just heard a clip of Brown being interviewed in Beiijing on the BBC 8 o'clock news. He used an extraordinary formulation about his
