With autumn conference (taking place in Bournemouth from 20-23 September) approaching, I’ve been looking back and thinking about what I might’ve found useful to know as a first timer. The directory ...

The wild rollercoaster of the 1920s The 1920s are rather the forgotten decade of British politics. The ‘long 1920s’, from the ...

Liberator 430 is out and you can download it for free here: and sign up to be emailed when each issue comes out here: In addition to Radical Bulletin, Commentary, Letters and Lord Bonkers’ Diary, this ...

Replacing first-past-the-post (FPTP) with a fairer voting system has been Liberal Democrat policy for as long as I can remember, but the increasing number of political parties making this urgent. We ...

Issued almost exactly a year ago, the ICJ ruling found that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory (including Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem) is unlawful, and ...

Wow! The Mayor of Welwyn Hatfield and I, only a week or so ago, spoke with students from Stanborough School about whether the voting age should be lowered to 16. We divided the Council Chamber ...

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Workforce figures: public “desperately” needs a govt focused on getting growth back on track Voting reforms: Elon Musk-shaped hole in Government’s announcement Afghanistan data leak ...

The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza has produced a totally damming Report on Child Poverty in the UK. The report is based on listening to children about their experiences of ...

Lib Dems: Bolster energy security to tackle “stubbornly high” inflation Ed Davey calls for public inquiry into Afghan data leak and unprecedented superinjunction Davey speech warns of Farage ...

As Parliament approaches the summer recess, the government is pushing out announcements to set the agenda for the autumn. An ‘English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill’, 300 pages long ...

Last time I was in Helsinki, it was about 10 years ago when I was a Young Liberal and had been attending the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) congress on the ferry between Helsinki and Stockholm. My ...