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David Cameron’s coalition government has brought in a risky political budget.

There are two important questions arising out of the possibility of a Scottish republic, writes Keshia Jacotine, who researches and writes about European and Scottish politics.

David Cameron recently called on the UK film industry to “support more commercially viable pictures” but pursuing any kind of formula is deeply problematic, writes Stewart Lee.

Italy’s credit rating may be heading south and plenty of businesses are struggling to survive, but in a country where so much is hidden, there is often growth where you don’t see it, writes Jo McKenna, a Rome-based freelance journalist.

Alex Salmond wants to be remembered as the founder of a new nation, but if he lets Cameron outmanoeuvre him on a referendum, then it could be a long time before Scotland gets another chance.

The EU has its problems. Not just economic, but more deep-seated issues to do with its “democratic deficit” — the way the union has been managed by elites and unaccountable bureaucrats.

The EU could have given the UK kittens, bl-wjobs and Belgium for free, and Cameron, on returning, would have still been portrayed as “the man who sold out to Europe”.

The problem for Cameron is that he’s dealing with a triple crisis — party, country and Europe — while his enemies have only one aim, to make the Tories over as a euro sceptic outfit.

It is extraordinary, unprecedented, the European project that everyone was so solemn about being re-engineered on the run like, well, like the dodgy banks that put us in this mess in the first place.

Europe is on the brink — and it’s a measure of how fast-moving the crisis is that I must add the phrase “at time of writing”.

You hardly knew where to look in London this week. The government didn’t fall, but a section of it sheared off, and fell into the sea.

Whether it’s from the presence of the Liberal Democrats or from David Cameron’s own convictions, Britain’s coalition government is steadily building up some reformist credentials.

Grinning, young, confident, Labour leader Ed Miliband strode across the vast forecourt of the Liverpool Conference Centre, towards a date with destiny — his first leader’s speech to the party conference.

Mark this week well in your datebook, UK pollie watchers, for history may recall it as the one in which, in the green shires of England, David Cameron’s Con-Lib government condemned itself to a single term.

The issue of Russian participation in Europe has been thrown into sharper relief this week by the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Moscow.

Hot on the heels of the English riots came the event that is usually the focus for riotous behaviour.

Since 1990, the Australian Public Service has become more top-heavy, with a growing and male-dominated senior executive service and a corresponding reduction in the lower employment bands, writes Dr James Whelan, the public service program research director at the Centre for Policy Development

It’s clear, from the people who are being charged, that rioters came from every social dimension of the areas where things kicked off. If it was hoodies that dominated the TV images, it was “good kids” who were getting into it as well, and quite spontaneously it would appear