I am going to suggest that we trial for a week in Politics a new system of posting. Please feel free to put your point of view below so that we can all discuss this like grown up's and without resorting to making this a political ploy (it isn't).
All you regulars seem to open a thread with a copy and paste and the link. More often than not, the majority of you seem to have little else to say about the article posted. How about for 1 week, the "OP" write his/her opinion about an article that clearly interests them, and just supply the link.