Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The government will soon publish its plans for the Lords. By all accounts it will go for a wholly elected second chamber doing the same job
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Over at the Spectator James Forsyth argues that today's speech by Cameron in Glasgow will shift the ground on personal responsibility and public morality.
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I have been very busy writing a chapter for a book on Charter 88 (while attending the brilliant and enjoyable seminar about it on Friday and
A leading Conservative politician in Britain and former shadow home secretary has broken ranks with the political and media establishment to launch a campaign linking government plans to extend the
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The Prime Minister appeared before the liason committee of chairs of Commons select committees this morning. Seems pretty sad. I am reproing below the blog account
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Eliza Carthy talks about her new album, how working with corporate music is like trying to breath underwater and tells Alexis Petridis she needs to keep
The Green party campaign against David Davis has been launched by their candidate Shaun Oakes and strikes a dreadful note of holier than thou. They could hardly do more to
Anthony Barnett (London, OK):There is a terrific article about homelessness in Britain in 2008 by Adam Sampson who is the Chief Executive of Shelter. It is in our sister
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I went to the launch of Iain Dale's new mag Total Politics at the top of the Milbank tower. The best encounter went to
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Three things struck me about last night's Question Time where David Davis was the main panellist.
The BBC despise him and what he has
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): So it is Sundown for Rupert's boy! True to his bullying nature, Murdoch's man fled at the first whiff of grapeshot.
Today,
Anthony Barnett (London, OK):The Prime Minister has just given an outrageous speech on security and liberty to ippr: thin but full of misrepresentations of his critics.
It is in
