Lsst week, the BBC reported that the Met Police had radical plans to close half its public front desks due to budget cuts. There were further revelations about entrenched misogyny and racism, leading ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The highlight of any Saturday night at Federal Conference is the ALDC's Campaigner Awards which highlight the wonderful things our councillors and campaigners have been doing over the past year and ...

Dick Newby has served us very well as Lib Dem Leader in the Lords since September 2016. He has now stood down and there was an election to replace him between Yorkshire’s Kath Pinnock and Scotland’s ...

I think our leader must be a regular reader of this column, or listener to my Political Frenemies podcast, or purveyor of my Twitter feed. Because, for months now, in those outlets and more I’ve been ...

What is this Labour government playing at? Having steadfastly refused to abolish OFWAT until last week, they now blithely announce, as if it’s some great triumph, that sewerage dumping will halve by ...

The UK–US trade deal is being celebrated in Westminster as the first tangible post-Brexit win for a beleaguered trading nation. The UK–US trade deal explicitly includes agricultural and food ...

To say that Birmingham City Council is facing a number of challenges at the moment would be an understatement. A combination of savage cuts to their central funding, a failed IT system, and the equal ...