Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Open Europe, the anti-EU pressure group, have taken the admirable step of publishing a complete English version of the new EU treaty, in effect its - our - constitution. I was surprised that it was not available officially, as the EU translates all its core material into its 23 official languages. But a search of the official EU website did not reveal its whereabouts. So well done Open Europe. Their point is that the government's refusal to give us a referendum on what they argue is 96 per cent the same as the original draft EU constitution is profoundly undemocratic and continues the erosion of British sovereignty. I am sure this is true. What puzzles me is why they and those on the right more generally don't draw the obvious conclusion. It is clearly threatening to be an uncodified entity within a codified one, therefore the first step to ensuring our democracy is to draw up our own democratic constitution.
Whoops: Guy points out that James Forsyth at the Spectator coffee house not only got there first and deserves a link but picked up some complaints from Dennis McShane MP about the translation - which he dismissed as beside the point.
