Opinion: Ed wants to steal our clothes
Oh dear. Ed Miliband makes one speech in which he mentions Beveridge and doesn’t overtly attack us, and everyone thinks he’s making overtures to us and looking to form a Progressive Coalition after the...
View ArticleOpinion: A Mayoral candidate in waiting?
With the launch of the shortlist of candidates for the London Assembly top up list, every good (London) Lib Dem’s thoughts should be turning to the Mayoral election – and who can we get to stand. While...
View ArticleOpinion: We’ve stopped setting the agenda
In Mark Pack’s generally excellent piece the other day entitled Role reversal for the Liberal Democrats he suggested that, love it or hate it, we have a long term positioning strategy in place at the...
View ArticleOpinion: Why we should be trying to win the London Mayor contest
Earlier this month, LDV published a piece of mine suggesting Vince Cable would make an excellent candidate for London Mayor, which I wrote because I happen to think that he can win. Some people agreed...
View ArticleOpinion: there are better adjectives for the Labour Party than ‘progressive’
I keep banging on about the fact that there’s a fairly obvious programme in place by the Labour Party to steal our natural positions, both philosophically and in policy (see my article on LDV or my...
View ArticleOpinion: Coalition needs a new approach to collective responsibility
In my recent piece on LDV, a fairly gentle poke at the rebranding of the opposition, two themes emerged from those with opposing views. They can be summed up as ‘Why don’t you lot ever disagree with...
View ArticleCampaign to get a Tunisian Street Vendor named as Time Magazine’s ‘Person of...
I’d like to enlist your help. Time Magazine gives the title ‘Person of the Year’ to the individual who ‘for better or for worse…has done the most to influence the events of the year’. They are clear...
View ArticleSo, Rebekah Brooks has finally resigned
This is obviously a good thing, and the right thing. Her position was untenable, and as I’ve blogged before – whether she knew what was going on in the newsroom when she was editor of the News of the...
View ArticleOpinion: Stephenson resignation – the bar just got lowered
The resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson as commissioner of The Met is significant in a way beyond the obvious. As someone tweeted earlier, from their resignation statements, one might surmise that...
View ArticleOpinion: #HandsOffTwitter
So, good news everyone – according to reports in the Guardian and others, the Home Office have decided that introducing legislation to allow the police to turn off access to Social Networks would be,...
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Why Mohamed Al Bouazizi should be the Liberal Voice of 2011
The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no one shall be...
View ArticleOpinion: I don’t think Jeremy Hunt should resign
Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t a post I really wanted to write. But I don’t think Jeremy Hunt should resign over the Murdoch affair. Lord, I hate myself. Anyway, ‘why so?’, you’re all bellowing at the...
View ArticleOpinion: It’s tricky isn’t it, this coalition business?
Try and be too Liberal and our coalition partners do all they can to put a spanner in the works. They surely feel much the same about us. Try and find a happy compromise and you end up with everyone...
View ArticleOpinion: it’s no good counting on those rose-tinted spectacles
We’re a generally an optimistic lot aren’t we, looking on the brighter side when the world and his wife thinks we should be walking around with our heads in our hands. I even wrote a piece about how...
View ArticlePlease stop saying people don’t vote against their economic interests. They...
I’m hearing the same argument uttered over and over again – ironically by both sides – in the Brexit debate. Remain supporters keep saying ‘no-one in Britain voted to be worse off in the referendum...
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