I have a feeling that I did some of this research myself a while back, but it's a good list.

"Contribute your views to our consultation into how we can best reduce the number of students who can come to the UK." An appalling pretence at public consultation with the most biased online survey I have ever seen.

"A less-than-accurate narrative is saleable as long as those to whom it is sold don’t discover that it is little more than fiction. Controlling the narrative becomes even more important when few Americans are familiar with the facts. "

Our main conclusion is that Africa is reducing poverty, and doing it much faster than many thought. * The growth from the period 1995-2006, far from benefiting only the elites, has been sufficiently widely spread that both total African inequality and African within-country inequality actually declined over this period. * The speed at which Africa…

"only one black Briton of Caribbean descent was accepted for undergraduate study at Oxford last year... One Oxford college, Merton, has admitted no black students in five years ... at Newnham, an all-women's [Cambridge] college, ... black applicants had a 13% success rate compared with 67% for white students"

"There is an emotional core utterly missing from The Five Doctors, only evident in tiny moments here and there, while the larger ones are wasted. I still enjoy it as a story, I always will – it’s a grand adventure and one of those Doctor Who stories that is burned on to my ten-year-old psyche – but for a show that was working so hard to define the…

Guide to the Eleventh Doctor - so far

I'm not sure that I really agree with Drezner. Many academic international relations specialists are far behind the reality of what is happening anyway. I hope Wikileaks may shake up the better ones and humble the worse ones. Sure, primary materials written now and made available in thirty years' time may become more guarded, but I am not convince…

This may only be a brief interlude, but it makes for a really interesting moment in which the spotlight is on real foreign policy instead of caricature.

Me old friend Kevin has his analysis

"Goodnight Moon", but not as we know it.

1) this will damage US diplomacy, for sure; 2) it will damage several governments mentioned in the cables, especially Yemen (see this devastating telegram); 3) it will take a while and a lot of promises by US diplomats that their comms are really really secure this time for other diplomats to trust US diplomats with confidences again; 4) the cable…

Sitting Green member will not commit to voting for his own party (his wife standing for a different party).

Correspondents lined up in London’s central London today to report from in front of a fence outside a big house that a man and a woman had reached an agreement and decided to do something next year.

Another series of polls to choose the best and worst Doctor Who stories, after a first round winnowed them down. Cast your vote by Monday. Choose up to four best stories from: Dalek, Fathers Day, Horror Of Fang Rock, Human Nature/The Family Of Blood, Partners In Crime, Terror Of The Zygons, The Daemons, The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, The Daleks, The…

Choose up to four best stories from: An Unearthly Child, Blink, Carnival Of Monsters, Doctor Who And The Silurians, Love And Monsters, Mawdryn Undead, State Of Decay, The Eleventh Hour, The Invasion, The Lodger, The Unicorn And The Wasp and The Unquiet Dead. Choose one or two worst stories from: Doctor Who [the movie], The Lazarus Experiment, The …

Choose up to four best stories from: Amy's Choice, Inferno, Planet Of The Spiders, Snakedance, The Caves Of Androzani, The Dalek Master Plan, The Fires Of Pompeii, The Five Doctors, The Keeper Of Traken, The Stones Of Blood, The Talons Of Weng-Chiang and The Time Meddler. Choose one or two worst stories from: Gridlock, Planet Of The Dead, The End …

Choose up to four best stories from: Castrovalva, Ghost Light, Revelation Of The Daleks, Rose, Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead, The Ark In Space, The Girl In The Fireplace, The Invasion Of Time, The Next Doctor, The Ribos Operation, The Time Of Angels/Flesh And Stone and The War Games. Choose one or two worst stories from: Love And Monst…

Choose up to four best stories from: Black Orchid, City Of Death, Enlightenment, Remembrance Of The Daleks, School Reunion, The Brain Of Morbius, The Christmas Invasion, The Curse Of Fenric, The Happiness Patrol, The Romans, The Three Doctors and Utopia/The Sound Of Drums/Last Of The Time Lords. (NB currently a close run thing between Remembrance …

Choose up to four best stories from: Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday, Doctor Who [the movie], Genesis Of The Daleks, Midnight, Shada, Terror Of The Autons, The Deadly Assassin, The Green Death, The Mind Robber, The Pirate Planet, The Stolen Earth/Journey's End and Turn Left. (NB last two qualifying places very tight between Deadly Assassin, Green Death an…

Choose up to four best stories from: Earthshock, Frontier In Space, Spearhead From Space, Survival, The Aztecs, The Evil Of The Daleks, The Mind Of Evil, The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang, The Robots Of Death, The Sea Devils, The Tomb Of The Cybermen and Warriors' Gate. Choose one or two worst stories from: The Chase, The Runaway Bride, The Stolen …

Choose up to four best stories from: Bad Wolf/Parting Of The Ways, Gridlock, Kinda, Logopolis, Marco Polo, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Face Of Evil, The Power Of The Daleks, The Pyramids Of Mars, The Shakespeare Code, The Waters Of Mars and Vincent And The Doctor. Choose one or two worst stories from: Four To Doomsday, Planet Of The Ood…

Westeros v Europe (for George R.R. Martin fans)

We laughed out loud at the one for the Flowers Vacola Bottling Outfit.

Excellent article. "In the 1980s we did not overreact. We did not stage ill-fated invasions of distant countries. People did not cease traveling and the airline industry did not fall into chaos. We were lazy in enacting better security, perhaps, but as a country our psychological reaction, much to our credit, was calm, measured and not yet self-de…

Some of the books are not in fact by advisers.