With Zimbabwe, China and the Olympics all in the news in recent weeks we have a number of markets covering them.
Gareth Young (Lewes, CEP): During Prime Minister's Question Time on 21st November 2007 Gordon Brown misled Parliament when he claimed that the Barnett Formula was based on need.
Jon Bright (London, OK): I picked this up thanks to Jon Worth's excellent Euroblog. Romanian Institute IPP have set up a new website which allows you to track
Neena Gill (West Midlands, Labour MEP): The financial crisis in the US will have a serious impact on Britain and Europe's economic outlook for years to come. Unsustainable
Jon Bright (London, OK): The UK is one of sixteen countries taking part in the "First Universal Periodic Review" being run by the UN Commission for Human Rights.
Jon Bright (London, OK): There's an excellent piece by Rachel Sylvester in today's Telegraph charting the demise of morale within the Brown government. No cataclysmic events,
Jon Bright (London, OK): A quick reminder about two No2ID events happening tonight.
In Manchester a debate entitled - "Towards a Universal DNA Database" :
Time: 7pm Place: Museum of
Andrew Blick on Swimming with the tide: Democraticisng the places where we work by Chris Ward and Zoe Williams, Compass.
(Swimming with the tide, Compass, March 2008, 34pp)
Why is
The sight of symbolic attacks on a symbol (the flame) of a symbolic representation of war (the games) may seem too layered even for our mediatised sensitivities. And yet .... the
Jon Bright (London, OK): The Telegraph reports today that 5,000 children are being added to the UK's DNA database a month, around 25% of the total number
Jon Bright (London, OK): What happens when sport mixes with politics?
A lot of police turn up, of course - in this case, plenty of regulars, some bike police who had
John Palmer (London): For too long serious political debate about the future development of the European Union has been distorted by the constant mantra from populists, euro-sceptics and others
