Progressive Postings - Best Of The Blogosphere, Tuesday 3rd August 2010

Today's must reads:

Jon Rentoul on a Tony Blair lecture about the job of Prime Minister: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/07/27/how-to-be-prime-minister/

John Hayes argues that the education of offenders should be at the core of the 'rehabilitation revolution': http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2010/08/john-hayes-mp-the-education-of-offenders-must-be-at-the-centre-of-the-rehabilitation-revolution.html

Andrew Gilligan On Ken Livingstone's deja vu Mayoral campaign: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100049400/ken-livingstone-this-is-what-brain-death-looks-like/

Next Left on political philosophy and the left: http://www.nextleft.org/2010/08/political-philosophy-and-left.html

Dylan Loewe at the Huffington Post asks whether the Republicans have lost the White House for a generation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-loewe/have-republicans-lost-the_b_667345.html

And Working Class Tory isn't too keen on my blog about the left of the Tory Party: http://www.workingclasstory.com/2010/07/platform-10-and-progress.html