Jon Bright (London, OK): I was at a Google / Demos event on Wednesday night held in Google's rather swanky Buckingham Palace Road offices (note to self: corporate events
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): As the Brown government makes a hash of its so-called citizens juries, James Fishkin reports on the conclusion to the altogether more serious efforts to
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): On Newsnight Michael Crick said that he thought David Leigh and Rob Evans Guardian story on how, in the summer of 2005, Labour peer Doug Hoyle
Ankara rejects Baghdad proposals
An 11th hour appeal by Iraqi officials for Turkish restraint may have ended in failure after Ankara rejected Baghdad's non-military proposals for tackling
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just back from Washington DC and awake to the end of the Today programme with Geoffrey Robertson QC and Jack Straw on the Putney Debates. Geoffrey
Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): So, ConservativeHome has discovered that the typical BBC employee who also has a profile on facebook has "liberal" political views - they out-number
Moderator: This is part of an ongoing exchange between Jonathan Church of the Federal Trust and Hugo Robinson of Open Europe. You can read Jonathan's initial piece here
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The last couple of weeks have seen a lot of action in openDemocracy's forums; enough, in fact, to
Gareth Young (Lewes, CEP): Gordon Brown, The Bard of Britishness, these days more of a Clown Prince, has been waiting and waiting for the Conservatives to play the English card
Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): We should welcome Gordon Brown's political predicament, for if he is regain the political high ground that he assumed on becoming Prime Minister,
Fresh sanctions for Iran
Condoleezza Rice announced fresh American sanctions against Iran, principally targeted against the country's Revolutionary Guard and associated entities. Washington has accused the Guard of
Andrew Blick (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): I have just obtained a copy of the government consultation document on war powers and treaties. War powers will get all the media attention, so
