Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just watching the Question Time debate between the three main London mayor candidates. I came in late. Boris said Ken had comitted a "whopper"
Felix Cohen (London, oD): AT & T, the quintessential Baby Bell, was one of the sponsors of last week's Westminster e-forum on the 'Policy Challenges of Web
Peter Facey on Paying for the Party: Myths and Realities in British Political Finance by Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, Policy Exchange.
(Policy Exchange, April 2008, 64pp)
This Policy Exchage pamphlet offers
OurKingdom is running a short series of posts looking at various aspects of local government - you can read the series in full here.
Mike Small (Fife, Bella Caledonia): We
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Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just in time to slip it in during St Georges Day, take a look at Patrick Wright's meditation on the revival of Englishness and
Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon) Scotland's Finance Minister, John Swinney, came in for sustained criticism last week, when he published the responses to the consultation on his
John Hill (London, Camberwell College of Arts): I've always quite admired Fathers 4 Justice for their media-savvy radical conservatism (transforming embarrassing your children into political dissent) and applauded
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): The Bank of England' swap is a clever device. If banks are not lending to each other because they are hoarding cash, the swap
OurKingdom is running a short series of posts looking at various aspects of localism and local government - you can read the series in full here.
Anthony Brand (London, New
John Jackson (London, Mishcon de Reya & Unlock Democracy): It's unfortunate - and rather worrying - that the article in ConservativeHome on the opposition's approach to
Judith Sunderland (Milan, Human Rights Watch): The United Kingdom came in for robust questioning on its human rights record from other UN member states last week at the Human Rights