jan14.html Dear readers, members and supporters,
Thank you to all of you whose gifts keep coming to the Think Long Term campaign.
The question we posed at the start
John Palmer (London): With a sigh of relief, but also with an increasingly nervous scan of what may be coming over the international horizon, the European Union enters 2008 -
Mike Small (Fife, Bella Caledonia): Kenny Richey, the man released after 20 years on death row, has returned to Edinburgh to try and rebuild his life. To help him settle
Moderator: Cross posted from Normal Mouth's blog.
Normal Mouth (Rhondda, blogger): The recent Varney Review on Tax Policy in Northern Ireland has been greeted in Wales like flatulence
Moderator: This is a reply to the many comments on David's post calling for supporters of an English Parliament to back up their claim with a moral vision,
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I wrote what I felt was a kind of brief political obituary for Peter Hain, after reading about the think tank front that funded his campaign
Dear Tony -
I'm glad I was in a position to be able to make a contribution to openDemocracy and would be happy to let you publish my
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Trevor Smith tipped me off about Jack Straw's appearance before the House of Lords Committee on the constitution last October. I quoted Straw'
Jon Bright (London, OK): The Ministry of Justice have launched the Governance of Britain website, something which all keen OKers might want to have a look at - it promises
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): At the end of my recent post on the fate of Peter Hain I noted the way events favour the nationalists if not the break-up of
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): 2008 will see the start of a recession that will do all the work left undone by other failures, to turn the Brown era into
Phil Hendren aka Dizzy (London, Dizzy Thinks): Did you know that on an average day in the UK the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) responds to around 3,000