Iraq's Kurdish north
Helicopter gunships slammed rebel positions in the southeast of Turkey yesterday, as 100,000 Turkish troops backed by tanks and aircraft mass along the border
Jon Bright (London, OK): I've just come from a CentreForum event advertising the launch of their new pamphlet: 'Globalisation: a liberal response'. Samuel Brittan and Vince
Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Things are worse than I thought. When I wrote yesterday's blog on the demands for self-censorship I had misgivings about making Prince
Andrew Blick (London, Democratic Audit): Those who advocate restricted voting rights for Scottish MPs have undoubtedly uncovered a problematic anomaly with the UK constitution. But the UK constitution is a
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The great Sunny Hundal of Pickled Politics has just emailed to say he has "teased" me in his latest CiF post. It's
Gareth Young (Lewes, CEP): John Redwood and Simon Hughes both objected to the Government's new attempt to establish "regional accountability" in England last week. Mr Redwood
Jon Bright (London, OK): Another hat tip to Gareth Young for flagging up this YouGov poll. It makes negative (if not entirely unexpected) reading for those interested in constitutional reform:
Jon Bright (London, OK): Anyone who signed up to email alerts in the last few months will have noticed that, well, we haven't been sending any. That is
Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Funny what we can say and what we can't say. Perhaps the most prevalent complaint about censorship and self-censorship in British society
Jon Bright (London, OK): Further to last week's liberty speech, the government have published three consultation papers on some of the proposed constitutional tinkering set out in this
Jon Bright (London, OK): One of the cleverer aspects of David Cameron's still relatively short tenure as Tory leader has been his use of 'policy reviews'
Saul Albert (London, The People Speak): In the midst of the furore over rigged TV 'voting' competitions, spurned elections and missing referendums, London-based art collective 'The
