"Basic Income was proposed by Paddy Ashdown as a fundamental component of his Radical Agenda for the 1990s, a book published in the late 1980s. It is liberal because it recognises the agency… Read More

On Thursday, July 20, 2023, England held three by-elections as a result of Conservative MPs who had stood down for various reasons. These were held in London (Uxbridge and South Ruislip), th… Read More

So let me shout it, yet again: if you want to boost our economy, you have to repair our broken relationship with Europe.Conference, you don’t need me to tell you what a disaster the Co… Read More

Yeovil Liberal Democrats have chosen their prospective parliamentary candidate for the next general election.It is Adam Dance, who runs his own gardening and landscaping business and is a So… Read More

It's the question that almost no one is asking, and I've put off answering it as long as I decently can, but it's time to find out what Lord Bonkers was saying in the December of 30 years ag… Read More

I was rather pleased with this entry, and then I realised what a narrow audience it would appeal to. It's people who loved John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy or the television… Read More

Lord Bonkers is still bereft at the death of the Queen. "I can't start a new week of diaries on the day of her funeral," he sobbed to me this evening, "It wouldn't be right."The he brightene… Read More

So much happened in the UK this week that it is hard to find the time and the space to write about it all. Conservative leadership contest Liz Truss’s campaign continues to motor ahead… Read More

The post The weirdest Liberal Democrat victory stunts appeared first on TodayHeadline. The Liberal Democrats have sometimes struggled to get media attention, usually losing out in column… Read More

Embed from Getty ImagesAn annual lecture on Hong Kong has been established to honour the late Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown.Announcing the Paddy Ashdown Memorial Lecture on Hong Kong… Read More

A memorial service for Paddy Ashdown was held at Westminster Abbey today, attended by four former prime ministers: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Sir John Major.Here is Joh… Read More

These board quotes will inspire you. Board is a long, thin, flat piece of wood or other hard material, used for floors or other building purposes. A collection of motivating, happy, and enco… Read More

These political debate quotes will inspire you. Political debate, a formal discussion, as in a legislative body, in which opposing arguments are put forward. A collection of motivating, happ… Read More

The last time I spoke to Lord Bonkers he was full of his plans to travel round Britain. Since then I 've received only the odd postcard from him.That is, until this diary was put through my… Read More

"Many Liberal Democrats don’t know that the late great Paddy Ashdown leaned heavily on the concept of a Basic Income as a fundamental component of his 'Citizens' Britain', arguing that… Read More

Embed from Getty ImagesOn Saturday 29 August this blog published a post under the headline Former Liberal Democrat leaders reveal themselves in their advice to Ed Davey.In it we alleged… Read More

Once upon a time I really liked Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party. They worked hard on local issues, opposing lazy Conservative and Labour councillors. I knew one of them fairly well. W… Read More