Alex Buchan ( Leicester): The interview with Wendy Alexander blogged in OK seems to me to be part of an attempt to make her seem independent of her patron Gordon Brown.
OurKingdom For those of you who are not asking yourselves - yet - about the left's new thinking, there is an interesting exchange on the challenge of the big three
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): the Prime Minister's speech about participation and citizens juries left many of us baffled. It now seems there is a clear commitment to make
James Graham (London, Quaequam): I'm not sure that simply exhorting individual Lib-Dems to write for OurKingdom is going to get us anywhere, which is what Anthony seemed
Jon Bright (London, OK): You might remember the case of Babar Ahmad which Steven Taylor posted on in these pages a couple of months ago. The petition to prevent his
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In an interview with Telegraph reporter Kate Devlin, Wendy Alexander Labour's new leader in Scotland says she is flexible about the Barnett formula and
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Where are the Liberal Democrats? Why are they not fighting for their views across the UK's blogland? Why are they not pushing forward the
Six years on: taking stock
On the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, both sides of the political spectrum in the United States agree that there are perilous faults
Jon Bright (London, OK): As a supporter of the principle of the EU it's always been depressing to observe the staggering incompetence and bloody minded bureaucratism by which
Jon Bright (London, OK): Decent article by George Monbiot in the Guardian today on the lack of participation in British politics. Brown has perceived the problem, he says, but looks
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The storm over Iraq now gripping Washington has profound consequences for the politics of the United Kingdom. With General Petraeus claming that the surge is working,
The Petraeus counter-insurgency
General David Petraeus will support the current trajectory of the "troop surge" in Iraq in his report to the US Congress this week, urging
