The Real Blog

It is both exhilarating and disturbing to find that the great edifice of government is moving in the directions you have urged.  Not that I ...

The mainstream arts world is a peculiar place.  It struggles these days, not so much for beauty in the Ruskinian fashion, but for controvers...

I'm a little behind with my reading, what with moving house in the summer and the constant business of navigating the remaining cardboar...

I was one of those young-ish activist types who took part in the extremely unofficial talks held between the Young Liberals, Liberal Ecology...

Why would you, after all? Nights crawling home on the late train. Sitting in interminable debate about the intricacies of social care till ...

I used to consider myself an expert on the future of money.  I realise I am not any more.  Experts on the future of money have to include mo...

Something is happening out there.  A fascinating article in Der Spiegel (thanks, Joe) puts the issue pretty succinctly: the global econom...