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On Independence Day, Frank Spring writes: Objectively speaking, there is no good reason for Sarah Palin to run for president. Alone among the major Republican potentials, there seems to be no political calculus whereby she could become president of the United States.

Oh, no. The Labour party is going through one of its periodic attempts to treat high politics as a form of psychotherapy. It’s rather depressing to relate all this stuff, because it’s a sign of the constitutional fragility of various leading figures in the labour movement.

The release of the higher education white paper on Tuesday asked more questions than it answered in a lot of areas. It sets up six consultations, a general consultation on the white paper itself and asks a range of bodies to consider in detail issues raised in the white paper.