The role for think tanks to take as they debate the ideas needed "for fixing the essential plumbing of our body politic"
A guest post by Helen of Police State UK
An excerpt from Anthony Barnett's Guardian commentary
It looks as if David Cameron is once again going to dance rings around Gordon Brown and his ministers
On Tuesday morning one of our Treasury Ministers, Paul (Lord) Myners, remarked in a radio interview on the dangers inherent in ‘push button' computerised trading...
Mousavi supporters clash with police in Tehran. Afghan policeman kills five British troops in Helmand province. The US delegation to Burma meets Aug San Suu Kyi. The US Congress rejects Goldstone Report. All this and more in today’s security briefing.
Henry Porter has a brilliant, brief and revealing polemic, a must read! It's on the Kim Howell's call to turn the UK into a fortress state
Alan Pearce, author of Whose Side Are They On? How Big Brother Government is Ruining Britain, explains why he was compelled to write a book that would drive people insane with rage
If any more evidence were needed that the Westminster system is itself sick and in dire need of treatment then the behaviour of MPs in the build up to today's release of Sir Christopher Kelly's report on expenses is surely it
It is time to bury Churchillism
Afghan President Hamid Karzai wins tarnished election. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton sparks criticism for praise of Israeli concessions. Suicide bombing kills dozens in Rawalpindi. South Sudan leader calls for independence. UN chides Congolese army for civilian massacres. All this and more
How can we grow intelligent government, allowing the open input of unelected specialists, and what wuld an effective drugs policy be?
