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Time for reform

It is somewhat ironic that the coverage of the Leveson report yet further affirms why the press must be reformed. The Sunday papers were awash with a visibly scared press prejudging the outcome of the report and warning of the end of free speech as we know it. From...

Remaking Britain’s institutions

Another day, another crisis. In the wake of the Savile affair, the BBC has joined a long line of British public institutions that have been engulfed by scandal since 2008. Politics today remains dominated by arguments over how best to navigate the aftermath of the...

140 characters does not make an electoral platform

With the selection of Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee and the implosion of Americans Elect from the process, unable to find a candidate for their ticket, we know the full set up for the election in November. With the clearing of the field the polls have both candidates...

A British Borgen please

If you didn’t see Borgen the first time around, I recommend you catch the repeat on BBC4 at the moment.  It is reminiscent of the West Wing in that it portrays a political leader struggling with the choices required in a position of political power, experiencing the...