David Erdos (Conference Organiser, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Oxford): 2008 is an important year for anniversaries connected with civil rights and democracy. In particular, alongside the fortieth anniversary of
Fair Deal (Belfast, Slugger O’Toole): In a Radio Ulster interview, DUP Deputy Leader in waiting Nigel Dodds, has left the door open to a deal on 42 days detention.
Andrew Blick (London, Democratic Audit): The parliamentary joint committee on the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill (CRB) will soon begin taking evidence. I will be posting regularly about some of the
Selina O'Grady (London, author): A letter from the council, a future Prime Minister and the absurdity of officialdom all made for an unusually political moment in my habitually
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): With all the attention being paid on Labour's debacle and the rise of the Cameroons there is a very different situation north of the
Rupert Read (Norwich, The Green Party): So, it's Boris. Gulp.
I'm not looking forward to Boris Johnson's Mayoralty, partly for reasons of personal familiarity
There is a already a new blog dedicated to aggregating views on and from Boris: welcome bozzawatch!
Is Dave Hill and his wonderful election blog London: Mayor and More.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Watching the news. It is ridiculous that an apparently very expensive counting system for London takes longer than doing it by hand, shows up the electronic
Jon Bright (London, OK): If you're watching the news as obsessively as I am today, you might have noticed two interesting media subplots developing, as we wait for
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Brown can't win the next election. More serious, any democratic reform agenda is now in jeopardy.
Brown can't win because the moment
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): I voted once before yesterday. It was as a student twenty years ago, when, in Darwin's answer to the paradox of voting, the
