You may have spotted a theme in my witterings over the last few weeks with my references to democracy and the importance of participation in it. All to often politics is conducted at megaphone level with the media and the press filtering (and molding) the message of the man/women …

There is a nice piece in the Gruniads Comment is Free section on the disconnect between the mainstream media and the rest of the world. Of course it's very hard from here to tell if "user-generated" content is as representative as the main stream media says it is not. However …

Well my comment on Nick Robinson blog is still stuck behind the moderation wall. I'm not sure why, I was only asking why he was covering political gossip rather than the actual issues of politics. I hope they tell me why at some point.

In fact the after the shock …

Well David Davies certainly got peoples attention. It's nice to be surprised by a politician for a change and it's certainly an issue that could do with more debate. Is it a political stunt though?

I think it's pretty clear it's not what the Tory's wanted to do, it's not …

The debate on 42 days detention without trial (or should we call it internment) continues to roll on. It's been particularly interesting listening to the politicos curious at why Parliament is being particularly difficult about this considering it allegedly a very popular policy with the "people". This hasn't been my …