Anthony Barnett (London, OK): On the way to the Lib Dem conference earlier this week I noticed that the only paper which had sold out in a Victoria Station WH
Jon Bright (London, OK): A lot of chuckling can be heard over at the BBC following reports that Brown wants a new British motto for us all to rally round.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): There's a great post over on our brand new sister-blog dLiberation. Clive brings in J S Mill to consider the progress of the
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Ming's speech has discomforted the conservative blogland, see the Spectator, and Shane Greer standing in for Iain Dale while Thatcher continued to roam the
Anthony Barnett: Just picked up from Pickled Politics and Chicken Yoghurt that Tim Ireland and Craig Murray's blogs have both been taken down because of a libel threat
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just been watching the Smirk, my name for the BBC's The Week with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo and usually Diane Abbott. Tonight there
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I popped in to a very crowded Royal Society of Arts session on the death of the establishment and its usurpation by a new political class.
Another Lebanese assassination
Continuing a depressingly familiar pattern, another car bomb claimed the life of an anti-Syrian Lebanese MP. Antoine Ghanim, a member of the Maronite Phalange party, was
Jon Bright (London, OK): As Alex Parsons indulges in some blue sky thinking over reforms to the UK's voting system below, Sunder Katwala mixes the art of engagement
Alex Parsons (London, Feeding the Fish): The idea of democracy implies that each of us has an equal say in elections. But this is hardly true in our current system.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I was down at the Lib Dems in Brighton yesterday, speaking at an ippr fringe meeting and got the following impressions. It was small, the bar
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): When Gordon's Green Paper came out and he asked for a national conversation there was no way you could respond to it as a
