There is an episode in West Wing, when the melancholic Director of Communications, Toby, dismisses concerns about the reputational implications of bombing a recalcitrant Middle…
There is an episode in West Wing, when the melancholic Director of Communications, Toby, dismisses concerns about the reputational implications of bombing a recalcitrant Middle…
With Lib Dem activists gathering this weekend in Brighton to celebrate the election of the largest third-party Parliamentary group in the past hundred years, there…
What should we make of the extraordinary election campaign we’ve just lived through – where, as Rory Stewart said, 99 per cent of Boris Johnson’s…
Over the past twelve hours my social media feed has been lit up by (over)-excited Lib Dems, blown away by a single YouGov poll showing…
The Conservatives’ Election Campaign so far feels oddly like Jeremy Corbyn’s in 2019. Every day, we get a bold new policy announcement designed to grab…
Attempting to draw conclusions about the outcome of yesterday’s elections with little more than a third of the votes counted is a complete mug’s game,…
A political collapse along the lines of that suffered by the Canadian Conservatives in 1993 – when they fell from a Parliamentary majority to just…
The Conservatives seek to frame pretty much every general election (with the exception of “Get Brexit Done”) as Tory tax cuts versus Labour spend. …
Radix Big Tent is a cross-party think tank, including board members and fellows from across the political spectrum. As Tim Farron’s former Chief of Staff in…
I have a growing concern. A well-functioning democracy, something which I hope that in years to come the UK will once again be recognised for,…
A friend of mine wrote to me a few days ago, explaining that he was pleased about the results I the last two by-elections, but…
Join Sir Nick Harvey (former House of Commons Commissioner and Lib Dem MP for North Devon) and Lord Paul Tyler (House of Lords reformer and…