Jon Bright (London, OK): It's been interesting to watch the writing coming out of the House of Lords blog, which is managing to quickly dispel my initial cynicism
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
