Like a lot of people in my line of work, I don’t use the media for news. I have my Google and other services set up to send me the latest stories on the parts of the world I am most interested in; I will often buy the Economist to find out what everyone else is reading; I buy the Guardian several times a week, but more for entertainment than information.

Since they got their RSS feed sorted out, I have found , the LJ feed for articles from the openDemocracy website, a really compelling read. Just today, for instance, there are three quite fascinating articles: my old friend Tom Gallagher on the SNP and Islam, the very respectable Paul Rogers assessing the vaunted US success in Iraq, and an article by a Belarusian journalist on the algebra of revolutions. Interesting reading, whether you agree with them or not.