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 against
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In a generous post last week, the prime orchestrator of the UK's blogland, Iain Dale of Politco's Bookshop and now Iain Dale&
Mark Bell & Alasdair Murray (London, CentreForum): Opinion polls suggest a hung parliament is more likely than at any point in the last 25 years. Long term electoral trends also
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): John Palmer has replied with admirable brevity in the comments to the OpenEurope response to his post. This debate is very important both externally in terms
Gavin Yates (Edinburgh, GYMedia): Anthony Barnett’s post on George Foulkes and the resulting comments both interesting and quite personal to me. In Scotland, not many people have risen to
Tom Nairn (Livingston and Melbourne, RMIT University): I was reading, as I am sure you have too, this past week’s Economist editorial on Belgium and entered a strange trance.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Thanks to Direct Democracy I've just seen this report on their regular email: "The Economist reports that the province of Ontario in Canada
Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Apart from these few pics I haven't got much to add to Anthony's report on the Fabian Society Democracy Day conference held
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I didn't know that life peers could also be members of our various parliaments, but it turns out that 'Lord' George Foulkes
Jon Bright (London, OK): I recently criticised Boris Johnson in these pages for making policy on the basis of anecdotal evidence and gut feeling rather than actual research. I was
