Jon Bright (London, OK): It's pretty clear Labour are facing meltdown in the local council polls - it looks like they may even have been beaten into third place
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Team openDemocracy's Editor-in-Chief Tony Curzon Price has a must read article in The Spectator on the end of gentlemanly capitalism. The term
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Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon): Sir David Varney "ain't no sanity clause," according to the BBC's Mark Devenport. After knocking back Northern Ireland&
Jon Bright (London, OK): OurKingdom will be moving websites between today and tomorrow, so apologies in advance for any technical glitches etc. you may experience. Rest assured all previous comments
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Over a year ago a Blairite told me he thought that David Cameron would be the Tory Neil Kinnock - the leader who would make his party
We asked supporters of the Tories, Lib Dems, Labour and the Greens to give us a short, "democratic" case for their mayoral candidate in tomorrow's London
I posted on Monday about doing a group annotation of JZ's book.
The various pieces are in now place:
1. The first digest notes are here
2. The
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Thanks to a tip from Gareth Young in the vigorous comments section on his OK post about The way forward for the Campaign for an English
Catherine Reilly (Dublin, Metro Eireann): The shadow boxing is winding down. The gloves are off. Use whatever lazy boxing metaphor you want. The Irish debate on the Lisbon Treaty is
Debbie Moss on From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 by Mark Garnett.
Garnett's history of the rise in disengagement and voter apathy suffers from its
