Guy Aitchison (London, OK): This evening’s Fabian leadership husting featured three leadership candidates. It will be the only one to do so. Tomorrow John McDonnell and Micheal Meacher are
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In the next entry below I mention the strange indifference of the most of the upmarket media to the structures of our country's democracy.
Anthony Barnett (London OK): The ignorance, philistinism and meanness of London’s professional journalists (or ‘hacks’ as they sometimes describe themselves with unusual accuracy) rarely surprises but can sometimes outdo
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Can it be the case that the main reason the Tories do not want a new codified settlement is that it will prevent them from tearing
Anthony Barnett (London OK): Tomorrow evening Brown will be debating with both John McDonnell and Michael Meacher, his two potential challengers. The enterprising Sunder Katwala of the Fabian Society organised
Katherine Hudson (London oD): OK readers may want to know that Gordon Brown now has an official campaign website called 'Gordon Brown for Britain'. On it, you can
Matthew d'Ancona (London, The Spectator): Asked this morning if he favoured a "written constitution", Brown replied that he wanted a "better constitution". But he
Anthony Barnett (London OK): I could not resist the picture. It leads a piece in Australia's Crikey by Guy Rundle in London writing a long complaint about how
David Marquand (Oxford): Jack Straw's announcement that he is now in favour of a written constitution may mark a historic milestone in Britain's long, slow march
Pam Giddy (London, The Power Inquiry ): A short time ago, in his first official speech as PM in waiting, Gordon Brown acknowledged the need for the sort of fundamental democratic
Michael Collins (Oxford): Gordon Brown has a unique opportunity to bring the issues surrounding identity politics, ‘Britishness’ and devolution together through a structured process of constitutional reform. This has the
Anthony Barnett (London OK): In his contribution below Tony Curzon Price argues all constitutions have to come out of a crisis and gives the example of the 5th republic. He
