Stuart Weir & Andrew Blick (Cambridge & London, Democratic Audit): Gordon Brown's green paper on governance at the start of his premiership last July inspired lots of people
Dear Readers, Supporters and Contributors,
Thank you to all of you who have given this week. I love the page of testimonials that we are getting together - you can
Moderator: This is a response to a comment left on John Jackson's previous post, which disagreed with his contention that English common law cannot be made superior to
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The thoughtful Dizzy has picked up on Paul Linford's posts which I blogged about as well. He's done so via Political Betting.
Peter Facey (London, Unlock Democracy): The government's review of electoral systems was published yesterday, finally fulfilling a manifesto commitment dating back to 2001. Will it move us significantly
OurKingdom: The National Centre for Social Research has just issued its new British Social Attitudes Report. This is taken from its 13 page pdf summary press release.
Only 13% of
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Team OK have been in a reformers seminar all day. And what a difference a day can make.
* Peter Hain finally resigned, I am confident that,
by Avinash Persaud
Washington's economic leadership fails the test, says Avinash Persaud, chairman of the financial advisory firm Intelligence Capital.
Monetary and regulatory policy should be about reinforcing
Jon Bright (London, OK): OK has been slightly slow on to this, but it is worth recording here that last Wednesday the Welsh Assembly has, in the best traditions of
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I got a slightly unfortunately worded invitation from the Guardian and the publishers I.B.Taurus which said that they :
invite you to celebrate the launch
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The Home Secretary was on the radio saying even more detention without charge was "reasonable" in case it would be needed. The OK team
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): For the second time running the Lord Chancellor has called me "Anthony" in public. Third time lucky and he will agree with me? Or
