Under cover of discussing the Open Society and its enemies, Nick Clegg today set out his personal agenda for the next year of this government. Indeed, Clegg's speech to Demos earlier was perhaps the purest distillation of his politics since the big set-piece number he delivered at the Lib Dem conference in 2008. It contained many of the same themes as that earlier speech: ‘social mobili...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Deputy Leader, responding to Nick Clegg's speech to Demos, said:

In a speech to the Demos think tank today, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will use some particularly robust language about seeing through House of Lords reform: There is a typical Westminster village cynicism that Lords reform is never going to happen because it has not happened in 100 years. I have no doubt that

It would be easier if the piece had actually been written in English but there we go. His essential point is that in order for Europe to work as a political unit there has to be a European Demos. Thus, umm, well, it’s Underpants Gnomes time. Yes, he’s quite right that a Demos is necessary

Right about now, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are having George Papandreou for dinner. There have been all sorts of rumours today about what Sarkozy and Merkel will demand from him. Thankfully, they seem to have abandoned plans to tell him to cancel the referendum. But they still seem keen to dictate the question and the timing to him. How that will go down with the Greek demos remains to be ...

High cuts to local disability services by Westminster City Council have this week received a damning assessment by the independent think tank Demos. The council is one of the three worst performing in the country, ranking 150 out of 152 care funding councils in England for the very bad way it is coping with the cuts. Tory councillors have allowed the true cost of the cuts to reach the pockets of v...

Insulated from the demos, completely unpracticed in the art of political leadership, it is little wonder EU officials can do little to address Euro woes.

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, said today in a speech at Demos:

In a speech tomorrow hosted by the think tank Demos at Microsoft’s Headquarters in London, Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, will say that the Government is in danger of preparing young people for a world that no longer exists.

The European oligarchy’s failure to include Christmas in a diary for schoolkids sums up their separation from the demos.