As a dedicated Liberal I’ve always vaguely subscribed to the Whig view of history, defined roughly that, by and large, on the whole and in the main, things are gradually getting better.  Improvements ...

It’s easy to argue that today’s failures – public services, low investment, poor productivity, decaying infrastructure, environmental degradation, etc – are the result of 10-15 years of economic ...

Britain was called the sick man of Europe. Years later, that sick man has returned; with its withered cane. This time, ...

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and Hull Council Leader Mike Ross have today called for “the polluters to pay” for any clean up of the North Sea following this week’s ship collision, as well as for ...

The Scottish National Party has long promoted an unrealistic vision of Scotland’s defence in the event of independence. Their incoherent and reckless approach, outlined in the deeply flawed 2014 White ...

In the last couple of weeks, policy on defence has suddenly moved centre-stage – to the point where even Lib Dem Voice has an article about it! The support given to Ukraine by our parliamentary party ...

As a Polish born Councillor, I have always wanted to show my beautiful nation to some of my Council colleagues. Although Poland has become a popular tourist or a city-break destination, I think that ...

If ever there’s an issue – or a sub-section of a broader issue – that sums up the sense that the UK is broken, even eight months after a new government was supposed to set a new direction, it’s social ...

Local government reorganisation is happening. That’s the reality. As a current district councillor, I could debate the pros and (many) cons of this all day – but one topic I’ve heard worryingly little ...

Bringing the party’s first leader back to life – in a modern-day cause Six years after his premature death at age 77, Paddy ...

When all we see before us is a dystopian hellscape with populists everywhere and everything we have ever valued (or taken for ...

There is an outside, long shot chance of saving Ukraine and the Western Alliance—Buy American. I don’t mean American cars or cereal. I mean something which really costs—American weaponry, American ...