- China’s leaders must embrace democracy by Minxin Pei (FT, £)
- The scandal of politics is that we believe our MPs should be perfect by @hopisen
- Digital by default – mind the generation gap.
- The brain science of making better decisions (FT, £)
- How to handle the media (FT, £)
- #PCC: Yet another attempt at reform misfires (FT, £)
- The relational state: How recognising the importance of human relationships could revolutionise the role of the state – IPPR
- EU Commissioners on Twitter: how are they doing? by @jonworth
- The Arab Digital Generation (slides by @mrdamian76)
- Speech by Margaret Thatcher on referendums (1975)
- The Joke’s On Iannucci OBE (Nick Cohen on the Thick of It, from September)
What we’re reading- Visions of Subsidiarity and the Curse of the British Political Tradition at @colinrtalbot's blog
- Online Consultation Guide Book from Bang The Table
- The 2013 EU Citizenship Report summarised by @euromove
- 75% can't name their MP, 57% don't even know there are European Parly elections.
- Parlamento digital (report on a session in London, by @miguelgonzalo, ES)
- Attention, puny hu-mans! Receive news-style content stream! This will activate your pleasure sen-sors!
- Seeing Like a Citizen: How Activists Are Making State Laws Legible (TechPresident)
- Politics needs mavericks, not just the same old chumocracy and groupthink (Jenni Russell)
- Party activists have less and less in common with voters. The party system needs a total rethink (Times, £)
- Cameron shouldn’t blame our rowdy press [or Twitter] for his own failings – (@benedictbrogan, Telegraph Blogs)