The Chesham and Amersham by-election has caused a bit of an earthquake in a political landscape that many thought was frozen with no credible opposition…
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My brother-in-law appears to be becoming some kind of bellwether of British electoral politics – he has voted at least four ways to my certain…
Dear Ed I very much enjoyed your first speech to the virtual Lib Dem conference this week. The party has survived so far, but rather…
Last week was a fascinating glimpse into the limited imagination of our political duopoly. I use the term ‘duopoly’ but, it’s more like an ersatz…
For tribal politicians the primacy of one’s party is an article of faith. For thinking Liberal Democrats, however, the three general elections of the second…
After the East Berlin uprising of 1953, Bertolt Brecht, wrote a satirical poem titled ‘The Solution’: “After the uprising of June 17thThe Secretary of the…
When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important to maintain a focus on our central, generational challenge – what…
The polls in recent weeks have been a little nerve-wracking, at least for anyone who believes that democratic politics has the potential to make a…
The Liberal Democrats are a shambles, widely reviled for betraying people’s trust on tuition fees and led by an old man with no charisma. Yet…
The Lib Dems are on a roll, the Greens are still making progress but Change UK have had a disastrous few weeks. Nevertheless, unless you believe…
As I argued in the Guardian earlier in the week, the Greens and Lib Dems should not be too overwhelmed by their results in last week’s…
It just hasn’t happened for Change UK. There was a moment when it could have, but a combination of naivety, poor timing, bad organisation and…