Political journalism of the day

There is a really interesting piece by Ian Dunt on the Politics.co.uk site, regarding the possibility or even desirability of achieving balance in political news. There is tremendous stuff about false equivalence and other idiocies. You can find it here.

                               Photograph by Getty Images, from The Evening Standard, 1968.

Most fascinating political blog of the day

This is about more than mere politics. It is about tribalism and knees jerking and self-delusion and many other animals. It is really worth a read, even if you are not a politics geek, like I am.

It is Peter Watt, on Luke Bozier and the state of the Labour Party, and you can read it here.

Excellent article of the day

From the online edition of The New York Times, a fine meditation on why politicians should not eschew the life of the mind.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/intellectuals-and-politics/