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
Jon Bright (London, OK): The leaders of both major UK parties, in slightly different ways, promised some kind of "new politics" when they first assumed their respective offices.
Gareth Young (Lewes, CEP): Anthony Barnett has asked me to write a piece about the “way forward” for the CEP - the Campaign for an English Parliament. To be honest
Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon) The Scottish Parliament Commission held its first meeting at Holyrood on Monday. One name which didn't feature on the panel of fifteen
OurKingdom is running a short series of posts looking at various aspects of local government - you can read the series in full here.
This is an anonymous post from
Catherine Reilly (Dublin, Metro Eireann): Burying bad news: never really a good idea, is it?
Just ask the former British government spin doctor who infamously called 9/11 a good
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): There is an interesting James Forsyth post in the Speccy on the half-hearted and unenthusiatic endorsements of Livingstone from the left(ish) media. You could say
Jon Bright (London, OK): OurKingdom was founded partly in the belief that points of "crisis" - when flaws in the current system can no longer be ignored -
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I arrived at the CEP – the Campaign for an English Parliament - annual conference yesterday as Mike Knowles was summing up his introduction asking why the
Published this week:
News
* The devolved nations begin to challenge PFI
* The Bank of England swaps mortagages for bonds
* England celebrates St. George's day
Comment
* The Local Matters
Peter Oborne reviews Who Runs Britain? by Robert Peston.
This book brilliantly shows how New Labour hand-in-hand with a rapacious capitalist class have created the conditions for our present crisis.
