When all we see before us is a dystopian hellscape with populists everywhere and everything we have ever valued (or taken for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unfortunately, due to issues with our venue, we had to cancel our plans to head to Cardiff for our first Welsh Conference in seven years, instead moving online. This was arranged very quickly, and ...
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