Lib Dem conference in Harrogate starts at 4.30pm on the Friday 21st March. Before that at midday we in the Social Liberal ...
History offers a sobering lesson. Winston Churchill warned of the perils of underinvestment in defence long before the threat of Nazi aggression materialized. His insistence on prioritising ...
Today, Germany faces a test at its 2025 federal election. Following the atrocities of the National Socialists, will enough Germans be willing to support far-right politics to the extent that the ...
The facts around the fighting in the Donbas in 2014 are pretty well known. After the Russian Invasion of Crimea, the Ukrainian government in Kyiv was in disarray. The first forces sent to the ...
Federal Conference is nearly here It is fabulous we are not only returning to Harrogate for a Liberal Democrat conference, but that now it is also a venue with a Liberal Democrat MP, following Tom ...
The government’s White Paper on devolution within England proposes unitary local authorities with a minimum population of 500,000, as discussed in part one of this article.The other significant ...
Liberal democracy is not the default setting for forms of government. Autocracy, or dictatorships, are. Liberal democracies, and the open and liberal societies on which they rest, have to be ...
In an email to Party members, Ed Davey set out his support for the Prime Minister's plans to raise defence spending - though he urged him to go faster and to get all-party talks going to work out how.
I have always favoured unitary authorities – provided they are the right unitaries, of course. It is disheartening, though unsurprising, to see Labour reforming English local government in a way ...
Last December, the Conservative peer Charlotte Owen introduced the Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill, which has made its way through the House of Lords.This ...
I would like to see our Party endorse Richard Murphy’s “The Joy of Tax”. As he writes in his final chapter: “We will tax to increase equality, and in the process we will reduce inequality ...
@David Garlic. Trump supporters may talk of changing the constitution. Clearly they haven’t read it. (Which by the way would take you less than an hour). A change to the constitution requires a ...