British House of Lords group blog

Matthews presses Bush fan talk show host on Chamberlain-Munich accusation against Obama -- host can't even name what it was Chamberlain did. "And the problem is, you don't understand there's a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Neville Chamberlain did wrong, most people would say, is not talking to Hitler, but giving him half of Czechoslovakia in '38. That's what he did wrong, not talking to somebody."

"The central process driving this is not globalization. It's the skills revolution. We're moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information."

What cute cats on the Internet have to do with activism