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 Agreement.
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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 2.
Mike Small (Fife, Guardian): The Council of the Isles meets in Belfast today for the first time since nationalists joined or led the governments of Scotland, Cymru and Northern Ireland.
Moderator: This is a response to a previous post by James Graham.
Claire Fox (London, Institute of Ideas): James Graham from Unlock Democracy wants to go further than Gordon Brown
Phillip Blond (Lancaster, University of Cumbria) & Adrian Pabst (Nottingham, University of Nottingham): Iain Duncan Smith's visionary report on Breakdown Britain demonstrates that both Brown and Cameron are
Gavin Yates (Edinburgh, GYmedia) The Sunday Herald’s columnist, Iain Macwhirter, describes the SNP’s leader’s first official trip to Europe since becoming First Minister. As I posted recently
Anthony Barnett (Athens, OK): While we wait for Peter Oborne to deliver, in OK or elsewhere, his verdict of the Campbell diary (for Peter was the first person to skewer
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): This side of a coup, there needs to be an intelligentsia if a country's direction - the way it is governed and the kind
Calum MacLeod - has made a long and interesting comment on why Scotland should lead the UK's fisheries negotiation in Brussels, in response to Gavin Yates's
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Partnering with ippr, we have started some OurKingdom conversations in their Covent Garden office to discuss why democratic reform matters and how the arguments are best
Mark Waters (Manchester, Participatory Budgeting): The OurKingdom discussion of Porto Alegre and Direct Democracy often seems to imply that ideas for localism are completely new to Britain. But the Prime
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Out of Powys comes The Campaign for Democracy with the amazingly simple strategy set out in a full page advert in today's Guardian. This
