Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The vigilant Dizzy has spotted an advert which suggests a new government department is being created. He suspects it will be a merger of the Scottish,
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Ben Brogan has just blogged the new official Blair portrait and responded favourably. But it reminded me of the 1951 film starring Alec Guiness as The
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Watching Gordon Brown on the news standing to attention as the Red Army goose step in front of him makes the Private Eye satire of him
Jon Bright (London, OK): Hat-tip to Kanishk Tharoor for pointing out this Caroline Elkins article in the Washington Post on the British imperial legacy in Kenya last week:
Enter Britain,
John Jackson (London, Mishcon de Reya & Unlock Democracy): Fraser Nelson's suggestion (commented on in OK below) that Gordon Brown might, by order, seek to require the English
Phil Davis (Birmingham, CFER): Four years on from the North East's rejection of a regional elected assembly, those of us who back devolution for England via the eight
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Coming back on the tube tonight I read a short item in the Evening Standard by Paul Waugh its deputy political editor about Peter Hain. It
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I don't want to boast but I went to see Iain Dale today, partly to talk about the new monthly magazine he'll
UK to ban jihadi internet sites?
In her first speech on terrorism since becoming the UK's home minister, Jacqui Smith hinted that the government would consider censoring radical
Guy Aitchison reviews: Affluenza by Oliver James.
This book offers an authoritative diagnosis of the destruction wrought by Blairite values but a less than convincing political cure.
The New Labour
Jon Bright (London, OK): The EU treaty, on which debate in parliament starts next Monday, is going to be the very epitome of a political football, and Fraser Nelson has
Roger Smith (London, JUSTICE): 2008 marks a decade since the Human Rights Act was passed, in those first carefree days of the Blair administration. Its anniversary will be marked by
