Pragna Patel argues that the establishment of Britain's first Sikh court threatens women's rights: "The use of religious laws to regulate minority women’s lives is not only discriminat… Read More
The new issue of Liberator was posted on the magazine website this morning. You can download it free of charge from there - it's Liberator 422.As well as Lord Bonkers' Diary, which I'll… Read More
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The Look at Life film really exists and is online - the young Paddy Ashdown appears at about 6.35 and the comment on the Dayaks at 8.20.Gentle humour at the expense of foreigners again? I pr… Read More
THIS was a tale of two anniversaries.
As Big Ben chimed 11pm on January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom had formally left the European Union. Yet the fourth anniversary of that moment passed… Read More
Today is the fifth anniversary of Paddy Ashdown's death. I still mourn him as a man and a leader.By coincidence, at 20.50 this evening Talking Pictures TV (Freeview Channel 82) is showing a… Read More
Embed from Getty Images"I was a passionate European, I still am and so was Paddy. In fact when he died he didn’t have a British passport. He had an Irish passport - like John Le Carr&e… Read More
With 30 of the most senior figures in his party publishing an open letter last week calling on him to be bolder – especially on Brexit – the Lib Dem leader, Sir Ed Davey, promp… Read More
Thirty senior Liberal Democrat members have signed a letter to the Guardian arguing that the party under Ed Davey is being too cautious and needs to explain to voters what it stands for befo… Read More
"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 pointed out at dinner this evening that I am yet to publish an excerpt from his diary for August 1992. He also assured me that you are all bursting to read it.Whatever the truth… 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
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The Liberal Democrats have sometimes struggled to get media attention, usually losing out in column… 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
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A collection of motivating, happy, and enco… Read More
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"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 ImagesOne of the minor triumphs of the Independent Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse has been the light it has cast on the Liberal Party in its last days.On 13 March 2019 Sal Br… Read More