Anthony Barnett (London, OK): “We need a party which will speak for an interest other than self-interested, amoral plutocrats. None exists.” With these words Will Hutton concludes a swinging attack
Jon Bright (London, OK): You've probably seen Nick Clegg's recent announcement on a revised immigration policy for the Lib Dem party. Most eye-catching is their announcement
Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): An entertaining exchange between Humphrys and Paxman on the Today programme this morning. Paxman was defending the arguments he'd made in a lecture on
John Palmer (London): I am afraid that Mats Persson, like so many others, has not read the proposed EU treaty.
* There is ALREADY a President of the European Council. The
John Jackson (London, Mischcon de Reya): The reference to "natural justice" in the Daily Telegraph's leading editorial on 22nd August being debated in OurKingdom takes me
Bush's safe legacy?
Foreign Policy magazine suggests that the "freedom agenda" set out by the Bush administration's international policy will have a lasting effect
Peter Facey (London, Unlock Democracy): We have just had the leak of the Government's review of the new electoral systems and are expecting the full report in December.
Mats Persson (London, OpenEurope): In a comment on a recent OK post about the EU referendum John Palmer writes, "the treaty is not a constitution and does not involve
Jon Bright (London, OK): CIVITAS has republished the 1905 edition of Our Island Story, a narrative history of Britain by Henrietta Marshall, which they hope might inspire "a return
Pat Kane (Glasgow, Scottish Futures): Wendy Alexander's unopposed coronation as the new leader of the Labour Party in Scotland is, as the Demos-associated political commentator Gerry Hassan says,
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The headline on the front page of today’s Telegraph is “Cameron: Scrap the Human Rights Act”. It is not yet clear that the Tory leader
Jon Bright (London, OK): In the first contribution to what will become a new OurKingdom articles section, Michael Keith, Professor at the Centre for Urban and Community Research and one
