With opinions polls continuing to show tentative signs of a narrowing Conservative lead, talk of a hung parliament is growing. This has a distinctive significance for Northern Ireland, where signs of a political opportunity for local parties will be closely watched.
As the festive season approaches the political and media classes play their own party game which is as familiar as ‘pass the parcel’: guess the election date.
The end game
Gordon Brown gave a short and partisan history of public service delivery in his recent speech at the Institute for Government. The Institute, by the way, was set up last
In recent years neuroscientists have discovered amazing things about the human brain. Free will and consciousness are, it appears, at least partly illusions. A literary movement in the early twentieth
Many things have changed in the last year: how we think of our politicians, the economy, bankers, the state, and yet a large part of our political classes, corporate opinion
Two weeks ago, in conjunction with Channel 4 and Dispatches, openDemocracy published a careful pamphlet on the Pro-Israel Lobby in Britain by James Jones and Peter Oborne. You can buy
The Economist's UK editor, who writes under the name of Bagehot, has just published an excellent column that qualifies him for membership of OurKingdom's growing network.
Policy think tanks expend much energy hunting for media profile, but it is extremely rare that they ever have it thrust upon them. In this respect, the launch of Phillip
Why and how we should lead the way
After I read Norman Baker's book on The Strange Death of David Kelly I was convinced that he was probably killed - and not by his own hand.
This is how Angela Epstein concludes her report from Manchester on becoming the first person to be issued with a UK ID card:
I loved seeing my name, face and
