Washington has agreed to move thousands of US marines off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa despite lack of progress on a controversial base relocation

UK welcomes revised draft of European fiscal treaty as ???real progress???

My Progress column this week is about the unravelling of Cameron's EU veto:

How are Nick Clegg's plans to 'shake-up' the constitution going?

Sadiq Khan MP, Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary, commenting on the details in today's announcement by the Government on a strategy for victims and witnesses, said:

I recently had one of those eye opening web surfing sessions where I find lots of new awesome stuff to explore. I was checking up on the progress of Raspberry Pi, itself a very exciting project to make and sell an ARM-based PC board for $35. They say: We want to see cheap, accessible, programmable computers everywhere; we actively encourage other companies to clone what we’re doing. We w...

A couple of quick notes. First, episode 2 of Foreign Entanglements is up; this episode feature Matthew Duss of the Center for American Progress against Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of FPI: Not much maritime content, but certainly some national security talk. In the near future I hope that have a more maritime-themed episode. Second, my WPR column last week was yet another unhinged screed against airpow...

Steven Pinker’s new book certainly does much to suggest that humanity is progressing rather than regressing. It’s puzzling then that he gives people so little credit.

The front page of Handelsblatt claims that, despite its public position, the German government has been planning for a Greek exit from the eurozone, even engaging in discussions with business leaders over its potential impact on the German economy. Meanwhile, the negotiations on the voluntary Greek restructuring started up in Athens again last night, with reports of progress being made.

Later this morning, Nick Clegg will be giving a speech to the Resolution Foundation in which, after recent talk about wealth taxes, he is returning to the topic of income tax cuts. More specifically, speeding up the progress towards a basic income tax allowance of £10,000 whilst keeping the 50p rate. This is of course closely