The leader of the Liberal Democrats heading the Coalition's programme for constitutional reform set out his overview of the government's programme. It is far-reaching but is it coherent and is it as radical as it claims?
A basic form of democratic engagement is being made illegal.
A brief critique of the abuse of the term 'fairness' in British politics.
A conversation between two of Scotland's leading political commentators on the significance of anti-Toryism and what it means for the country and its politics.
It shouldn’t come as a great surprise that a powerful institution like the UK's Metropolitan Police, wrong footed and deeply embarrassed by the student protest at Millbank on 10 November, would throw its resources into a major operation to hunt down the protesters who had humiliated them.
The British monarchy put itself on facebook a week before it was announced that William is engaged to a commoner. Is there a limit to reinvention?
Can the government's Big Society idea foster genuine community empowerment, or is it merely a smokescreen for cutting back the size of the state? OurKingdom authors provide top debate and analysis of the Coalition's plans for a renewal of civic life.
The legal declaration that Phil Woolas knowingly lied and his election was void has reignited a debate on politics as a black art. Now it seems the dark spirit is animating government and official statements are not to be believed either.
Two significant moments in the British political blogosphere, involving backbench Labour MPs, raise important questions about the role of modern politicians.
The unreflective anti-Tory mindset prevalent across much of the left in the UK produces a tribal and blinkered politics. Those of us who disagree politically with Conservative values, ideas and policies have to do better and aim higher.
Is the Lib Dem negotiator David Laws being tendentious in his account of how the Coalition came about in May? A Labour insider reports that it is economical with the truth.
It is one thing to change your mind after you have been elected as part of a Coalition agreement process, however objectionable. But it is surely much worse to be planning in advance of a general election to drop a flagship policy aimed at winning votes from a large targeted group after they have
