Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): Pressure is mounting on Gordon Brown as calls for a referendum on the EU treaty grow louder. Senior Conservatives have been reported as saying that the
Kanishk Tharoor (London, Terrorism.openDemocracy): Gordon Brown's first visit as prime minister to the United States – where he shared a lunch of cheeseburgers and French fries with George
Phillip Blond (Lancaster, University of Cumbria) & Adrian Pabst (Nottingham, University of Nottingham): Our post on the breakdown of British society and the consequent cultural crisis enveloping our country has
Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): The Canadian province of Ontario is gearing up for a vigorous, hard-fought political campaign ahead of a referendum on electoral reform on October 10. Ontarians are
Robin Wilson (Belfast): As a number of contributors to the ‘Britishness’ debate in OK have made clear, the other term at play here is ‘multiculturalism’. This is being debated in
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): With debate bubbling about whether a written constitution is needed to help resolve issues of layered identity and integration, the core anti-argument popped up in response
Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): Facebook often throws up the most bizarre information. What practical use could I possibly have, for example, for the information that at 7:57am "Rachel
Gavin Yates (Edinburgh, GYMedia): Alex Neil the SNP MSP has had a busy weekend briefing his vision of a Speaker’s Convention to newspapers. The idea is for a constitutional
Jon Bright (London, OK): Sunny over at Pickled Politics flagged up an interesting poll today on Britishness run by ICM. Standout result is that fact that 59% of British Asians
Andrew Blick (London, Houses of Parliament): Parliament has before it a potentially historic constitutional reform programme in the form of the Prime Minister's Green Paper, as well as
Andrea Cornwall, Srilatha Batliwala, Cecilia Sardenberg and Anne Marie Goetz talk to Jane Gabriel about feminism and gender in a neo-liberal age.
Moderator: This is an ongoing debate, started by Anthony Barnett and Martin Wolf, about whether an intelligentsia is needed if Gordon Brown, or anyone else, is to reform Britain. You
