Anthony Barnett (London, OK): What is poor Jack Straw doing? What is happening to the bold reform programme pointed towards by the Prime Minister's Green Paper? Back on
Derek Wyatt (London, MP): Citizens' Initiatives will, eventually, be introduced in this country. The success of the 10 Downing Street e-petitions website - for protesting the proposed introduction of
Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): Uneasy alliances, compromises, betrayals, coalitions: the party political machinations in Scotland and Wales are endlessly fascinating, if not easy to follow. This week two developments point
Jon Bright (London, OK): Just been made aware of imooty.eu, a cracking news aggregator for European news outlets. Not only does it simply and clearly aggregate the top stories
Bush's Napoleon complex
Writing in the Nation, historian Juan Cole sees uncanny parallels between George W Bush's invasion of Iraq and Napoleon's invasion of
The pro-war left
Writing in Dissent, the New York-based left-wing magazine, Johann Hari uses Nic Cohen's "What's Left?" to launch into a wider meditation
Jon Bright (London, OK): ippr have released a statement calling on Gordon Brown to institute a "British national day" as an extra bank holiday, which would involve '
Jon Bright (London, OK): With most people feeling like there will be an election within a year at most, thoughts are once again going to be turning to the ins
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In a striking article in London’s pre-holiday Evening Standard (not on line) David Davis had a go at the Chindamo affair. He understood that the
What conditions allow user-generated content to create quality? Listen to Carl Djerassi's talk with Tony Curzon Price
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): According to a report in today’s Independent by Ben Russell, when John Prescott resigns from the Commons at the next election he is “expected” to
Jon Bright (London, OK): Poor Rhys Jones is dominating comment sections recently, with a rather predictable left right split. On the right Janet Daley is talking about the erosion of
