There's a great review of Henry's book just out in the Washington Post by Patrick Anderson. Here is a taster:
English journalist Henry Porter's
If we needed to know that Britain's political system is a wreck, Gordon Brown's speech yesterday was confirmation. Chaired by Liza Harker of ippr, who retained a steady Mona Lisa smile through his performance, the Prime Minister declared the time had come for ‘New Politics’.
Anthony Barnett goes back to the openDemocracy archives
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.
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
I went to the launch of Phillip Blond’s ResPublica think tank and had a parallel but very different shock to Guy Aitchison at the London Citizens at the Barbican.
Tony Blair once described Jack Straw as a "tart". Takes one to know one? Anyway, there seems to be nothing a tart delights in more than teasing us
The future of Britain is at stake as the country heads towards an election year: a recent Scottish by-election gave Labour a surprising majority. Anthony Barnett takes this as the starting point for an exchange with Gerry Hassan on where a country with many parliaments is heading.
The long time Labour MP for Nottingham North issues a bitter, swinging assessment of the pernicious collusion of government and media that is strangling parliamentary democracy in Britain
