Hussaina Abdullah spoke to Jane Gabriel about rebuilding civil society in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of civil war.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I'm watching BBC 24 with Iain Dale and Alex Hilton sweeping up the email detritus of Question Time. Discussing the Goldsmith debacle over children
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): All MP's expenses are likely to be published. The result predicted by Nick Robinson is that they will need to be paid more. It
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The row over citizenship raises some big issues which I'll write about tomorrow, but one of them seems only to have been picked up
Jon Bright (London, OK): Nick Clegg will call for around 150 parliamentary seats to be dissolved this evening in a speech in Sheffield. I'll be interested to hear
Mike Small (Fife, Bella Caledonia): Peter Preston's "Malaga to Manchester" in Tuesday's Guardian contained the usual parody of analysis and a predictable panoply of
The basic rights of women in the developing world are being ignored in the battle against poverty
Gareth Young reviews Where Stands the Union now? Lessons from the 2007 Scottish Parliament election by John Curtice, ippr.
(ippr, February 2008, 13pp)
New ippr report's use of
Catherine Fieschi (London, DEMOS): It's a well kept secret, but apparently Britons know exactly what it means to be British. They don't need to be taught,
Billy Bragg (Dorset, musician): The Government are constantly talking about the idea of Britishness yet seem unable to come up with a clear definition of exactly what that means.
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Admiral William Fallon, the US military commander in the middle east, has retired from his position allegedly as a consequence of significant differences between him and the White House on
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): In a sympathetic review of Keith Ewing's lecture this week, Debbie Moss suggests that the Professor is onto something:
Government has to be checked
