Jon Bright (London, OK): The headline that most of the papers didn't go with today was the launch of the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council, an independent body
Jon Bright (London, OK): From this week's backbencher:
Sometimes you need to set up a thinktank in a hurry - perhaps to provide a convenient repository for some
Jon Bright (London, OK): I am, I must admit, a 'sports' fan, in the truest sense of the word. I find sports entertaining to watch. Whatever the sport,
Jon Bright (London, OK): Douglas Carswell MP, of the Conservatives and also Direct Democracy, is going to be blogging for Conservative Home's new group blog 'Centre Right&
Islam and its modern vexations
In the New York Times, Tariq Ramadan makes a case for the openness of the Koran, arguing that it is a text available to constant
Jon Bright (London, OK): The Governance of Britain website, which we've taken a bit of a keen interest in here, has released a couple of things worth flagging
Jon Bright (London, OK): Over the last month or so we've been slowly putting together a small spin-off site called, imaginatively, "Government Consultations" (GC). The idea
Philip Hosking (Cornwall, The Cornish Democrat): It's 2008, and devolution and decentralisation still seem to be on people's minds - or at least that's
Jon Bright (London, OK): There is a wonderful Alan Cochrane opinion piece on today's "Wendy Commission" - the constitutional commission organised by the three Scottish unionist
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): When the prime minister came out in the Telegraph to say he liked the idea of a museum of British history I thought it was ridiculous
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): For a refreshingly global take on the fundamental issue of accountability which we are struggling with here in the UK, see a swift and eloquent overview
Jon Bright (London, OK): Iain Dale has had a sneak preview of the next tranche of the Conservative's Democracy Task Force reporting, unless it is the final thing.
