Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): Do you remember the torture of the high-jump competition at school? You knew that however good anyone was, the bar would inexorably be pushed higher.
Michael Rustin (London, Soundings): Unfortunately, there are problems in the exercise of power by government in Britain beyond the infringements of human rights and individual liberties cited by the critics
Katrina Forrester (London, Plane Stupid): In the last months we have seen a surge in environmentally driven political action. The UK's anti-aviation movement is being propelled by local
Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): How should we interpret the massive investments from sovereign wealth funds being taken by UBS, Citi and Morgan Stanley to shore up their capital reserves?
Trevor Smith (York, House of Lords): Gordon Brown has presented himself as a Prime Minister who takes the overview, is aware of the forces undermining the unity of Britain and
Stuart Weir & Andrew Blick (Cambridge & London, Democratic Audit): Tony Wright MP has given Gordon Brown a great opportunity to act fast and dispel the idea that he is
Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon): Sir David Varney published his long-awaited review of tax policy in Northern Ireland this week. As most observers expected, Varney rejected the case for
Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): Banks are utilities. A plank of Mervyn King's defence of his handling of the Rock is that he tried to persuade his international
Andrew Blick (London, Democratic Audit): I am a naughty boy. I have upset Iain Dale with my suggestion that too much parliamentary time is wasted on the long vacations that
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Gripping debate between Henry Porter and Polly Toynbee this morning on the Today programme. Well worth listening to. Polly's view is, I was amazed,
Dear openDemocracy reader,
I sent you this email yesterday, but all the links got stripped out of it. So here it is again - this time a bit easier to
Rupert Read (Norwich, The Green Party): I knew and worked with Chris Huhne long ago, back as a student in Oxford in the 1980s, when we were both in the
