Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just back from a warm and crowded Compass conference (see post below) where I substituted for Helena Kennedy at a Power Inquiry session on globalisation and
Guy Aitchison (London, OK): The democratic left pressure group Compass has published the latest in its Programme for Renewal: Democracy and the Public Realm. Democracy, it notes, is in retreat
John Osmond (Cardiff, IWA): Prompted, it seems, by Gordon Brown - worried that he might face two nationalist First Ministers before the summer is out, one from Wales as well
Iain McLean (Oxford, Nuffield College): Peter Oborne claims that the monarchy is one of the defining institutions of Britishness. Perhaps. But what is its record as a supporter of constitutional
by Tan Copsey
After a week of apparently intense negotiation the G8 has reached a deal on climate change. The G8 boldly delared that they were:
'committed to taking
Technology, power, credibility
Eric Bettelheim, right-libertarian environmentalist, market mystic, basher of big government, protested in his defense of green growth against the jeremiads of journalists for whom pessimism has become
Pat Kane (Glasgow, Scottish Futures): Civic Scotland is rousing itself to meet the challenge – or as Nairn and Ascherson would put it, the threat – of Gordon Brown's new
Moderator: this is a long post - on a very important issue
Geoffrey Bindman: (London, BIHR): On 3 June Gordon Brown attracted easy headlines, announcing his desire for tough security
Our Kingdom: Are you one of those regular people who can't tell their RSS feed from their ARSS? Someone who thinks FEEDBLITZ is probably for pigeons? Someone who
Andrew Blick (London, Democratic Audit): Readers of today’s Independent and Daily Telegraph will be led to believe that Gordon Brown intends to restore collective government through the appointment of
The approach to the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Heiligendamm, Germany from 6-8 June 2007 has been characterised by a forceful rhetoric exchange between the United States and Russia
Suppose in June 1967, after the smoke had cleared from the war, Israel, citing its reluctance to rule over a large Palestinian population, had decided to withdraw from the Gaza
