Reinventing the State reprinted
I’m very pleased to say that Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century has been reprinted with the first print run having sold out. The editors (myself, Duncan Brack and David...
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Wikipedia defines civil liberties in the following way: Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the right to life, freedom from torture, freedom from...
View ArticleHow do we build the Lib Dems’ core vote?
Can the problems the Liberal Democrats are currently experiencing be put down not to the Coalition but, in the long view, to a failure of the party to promote a strong, distinctive liberal philosophy...
View ArticleWho are the Lib Dems ‘unconventional men (or women) whose mad ideas make us...
Andrew Rawnsley, writing in today’s Observer under the surprisingly un-PC title In praise of unconventional men who make us think, sticks up for those iconoclastic thinkers who challenge their parties’...
View ArticleQuestion: Big or small government? Answer: effective
One prominent member of Liberal Youth hits the nail on the head when she says ‘[I am] frankly sick of all this I’m a social liberal so I’m a better Lib Dem; no it’s Orange Bookers that are real Lib...
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Economic liberals or social liberals? Pragmatists or ideologues? How Lib Dem...
Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Almost 600 party members...
View ArticleIf we want to win elections we have to denounce austerity
Part 1 “Never point out your own mistakes” seems like a good political maxim, so why should we ignore it on this occasion? Of course, not everyone agrees that austerity was a mistake at all, and some...
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