Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog, Liberal England’s Jonathan Calder argues ‘of course policy on faith schools is a compromise – that’s how social institutions are most often made to work’. Here’s an excerpt: … if, in a surge of Jacobin purity, the party had voted for an outright ban on faith schools, it

David Miliband's article in the Guardian is lucid, intelligent, thoughtful and well constructed. I like David both personally and politically.  So an article setting out such his analysis of the future should enthuse and motivate me. After all, I agree with 99% of it. Yet I read the Guardian article with a sinking feeling in my stomach. Intentionally or not, it will

Guardian has a Miliband agenda Bob Marshall-Andrews, though an unreconstructed maverick, writes a very entertaining blog, which everyone should read just to cheer themselves up in the morning. Anyway here he is on the subject of writing for the Guardian: "Just had an article urging Brown to go for growth turned down by the Guardian All my articles are turned down by the Guardian but...

Jonathan Calder's blog is Liberal England, and his New Statesman column is Calder's Comfort Farm What made you decide to start blogging? It was because I wanted somewhere on the web to publicise my writings, including my weekly column on Westminster for Liberal Democrat News. I did have a website before I started Liberal England, but it was in the name of my alter ego Lord Bonkers. But I...

Why back a man who claims society is broken but admits he can't fix it? - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian The unions' relationship with Labour is no sordid affair - Tony Dubbins, Guardian What sort of freedom do you believe in?...

Superb article in The Guardian today. Well worth a read.

My last blog entry demolishes Polly Toynbee's pathetic puff piece for Harriet Harman, masquerading as an article on Ghana - a subject on which she is almost totally ignorant. Toynbee's piece was published in the laughably misnamed Comment Is Free section of the Guardian. Several comments referring to my piece have since been deleted by Guardian moderators. The link to my article was publ...

Not content with publishing a letter from leading progressives, the Guardian tonight brings to an end its journey to a decision about which party to support. The article is here. General election 2010: The liberal moment has come If the Guardian had a vote it would be cast enthusiastically for the Liberal Democrats. But under our discredited electoral

Here's the Guardian article Cons 38% (-7) Lab 33% (+3) LibDem 19% (+1) Others 10% (+2) This is the highest Labour has got with ICM since April. Tories are below 40 (they need 40% to win an overall majority) The following is from the Guardian article: "Asked to compare Cameron and Gordon Brown on a series of characteristics, Brown pulls ahead by 11 points as the person most likely to get ...

Good Gord! Just wondered what others thought of the PM's article printed in today's Guardian. Pops his head above the parapet and is subjected to a tirade of abuse.