Jon Bright (London, OK): During yesterday's Future Britain launch, which OK is supporting, I found my mind wandering, obscurely, to the pub. Was I musing on the problem
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In a challenging article in openDemocracy drawing on her exceptional international and comparative work, Saskia Sassen takes a look at Gordon Brown’s reforms from the
Gavin Yates (Edinburgh, GYmedia): Today's Scotsman reports a very interesting development in the relationship between Scotland's civil service and Whitehall.
Scotland's most senior civil
Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): The momentum behind political reform continues to build. Today I went to the launch of Future Britain, a project established by the LSE to explore options
John Osmond (Cardiff, IWA): Viewed from Cardiff ‘Our Kingdom' looks like being steadily prised apart, not by revolutionaries, separatists or even voters, but by a disinterested, uninformed, and frankly
Gavin Yates (Edinburgh, GYmedia): So what emerged from the first British-Irish Council meeting featuring the SNP and Plaid on Monday? In practical terms not very much. (Not even a
NEW EDITORIAL TEAM AT OPENDEMOCRACY AS ISABEL HILTON LEAVES TO FOCUS ON CHINADIALOGUE
LONDON: After two years and four months at the editorial helm of openDemocracy, Isabel Hilton is moving
Paul Hilder (Lewisham, Avaaz.org): Do you have a question for Britain's new foreign secretary David Miliband? A statement, piece of advice, warning or encouragement? Our million-strong
Ben Ward (London, HRW): In the renewed bid by the police to extend the 28 day pre-charge detention time limit for those suspected of terrorism, hearts and minds appear
Bettany Hughes (London, Lion Television): I've just embarked on writing a book about Socrates, and am tussling with an age old paradox: here is a state - Athens - that
Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon): The British-Irish Council, which met yesterday, was largely created as an Ulster Unionist counterweight to the all-Ireland bodies in the Good Friday
Guy Aitchison (Bristol, OK): David Cameron, it seems, can't get enough of the web. His well-staged performances on WebCameron suggested an early enthusiasm for all things ‘Web
