Chris Thomson (Barcelona, SCC): A Constitutional Convention is being set up in Scotland. Its purpose is to host the (Scottish) national debate on how Scotland should be governed and on
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Two articles in today’s Observer show the two sides of contemporary English judgement: at its best and its worst. It is the difference between someone
Gavin Yates (Edinburgh, GYMedia): The Prime Minister's plan to raise the Union flag on public buildings every day will not apply to Scotland, according to the BBC. As
Tom Waterhouse (Abingdon, CEP): Mike Small (Lessons in Democracy and Self-Determination) makes some valid points about pushing forward the case for an English Parliament.
I firmly agree that the case
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Back from Greece where I attended a wonderful 'Symi seminar' run by George Papandreou, leader of PASOK, the socialist opposition party hoping to win
Daniel Leighton (London, Power Inquiry): For anyone thinking about how to involve ‘ordinary citizens’ in political decision making, Bettany Hughes’ TV documentary on Athenian democracy provides good food for thought.
Sunny Hundal (London, Pickled Politics): Last week Phillip Blond and Adrian Pabst did the blogging equivalent of carpet bombing - letting loose a hail of shells at a multitude of
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Cameron is in real trouble with today's Telegraph poll showing that Brown would double Labour's majority an election tomorrow. As Stephan Shakespeare
Kanishk Tharoor (London, ToD): British debate over terrorism is thin, memory-less, comparison-free and prone to hysteria because of its lack of depth. Despite all the talk of a global threat,
Mike Small (Fife, Guardian): After the recent Council of the Isles meeting at Stormont, where all countries of the UK including the Isle of Man were present except for England,
Paul Kingsnorth (Oxford, writer): Summer 2005, and I’m working as an assistant lock-keeper on the river Thames. A parallel world has unfurled before me. I live less than a
Jon Bright (London, OK): Overshadowed by the headlines of his announcement about a unified border police and extending detention, Gordon Brown has approved the decision to build two vast aircraft
