Liberal Democrat Voice6d
Vince Cable writes…Standing up to Trump
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Liberal Democrat Voice5d
Like a broken clock, even JD Vance can be right sometimes
The doubting Tories Weekly Road Report - West End Ward #dundeewestend The Joy of Six 1325 How populists win culture battles while losing the culture war - The Week in Polls ...
Liberal Democrat Voice5d
Three big moments for senior Lib Dems in the media
The past week has seen three big appearances from Lib Dems. You used to go weeks without anyone so it’s great to see that we have a bigger profile and that there are multiple opportunities for ...
Liberal Democrat Voice4d
Tax increases needed to counter Trump’s full-frontal assault on liberal democracy
So now we have no alternative. We have to raise taxes. Trump’s appeasement of Russia threatens European security. But it also poses the full extent to which the Conservative government ran ...
Liberal Democrat Voice19h
Mark Cole returns to Cardigan Town Council
When I first got involved in blogging, I came across the force of nature that is Mark Cole. At the time, back in 2009, he was Mayor of Cardigan at the age of just 26. He left the Council in search of ...
Liberal Democrat Voice21h
How do we deal with this epidemic of Nazi salutes?
Steve Bannon has become the latest high profile political figure to give a fascist salute, with this one coming during the increasingly extreme CPAC convention. I suspect that if a decade ago, you ...
Liberal Democrat Voice23h
Observations of an Expat: Zelensky’s Options
Volodomyr Zelensky has had a tough job since February 2022. And since the election of Donald Trump it has become a whole lot tougher. In just the past ten days the American president and his acolytes ...
Liberal Democrat Voice1d
Ten years on – it’s time for change
I wrote in Lib Dem Voice about the need for a governance review of the English Party. I urged consideration of what functions of the State party could be better delivered at a Federal level, recognisi ...
Liberal Democrat Voice1d
ALDC By-election Report, 20th February
There are 6 principal councils by-elections this week held across England and Scotland. Labour suffered big losses vote share wise but managed to hold 3 out of 4 of their seats, losing one to the SNP.
Liberal Democrat Voice1d
How do we defend liberalism from this attack?
Liberal democracy is not the default setting for forms of government.  Autocracy, or dictatorships, are.   Liberal democracies, and the open and liberal societies on which they rest, have to be ...
Liberal Democrat Voice4d
Dr Adam Kay and the vital importance of the mental health of NHS staff
On Valentine’s Day, I went with my Valentine, to see Adam Kay:Undoctored at Newbury’s Corn Exchange. I have a soft spot for ...
Liberal Democrat Voice3d
Alistair Carmichael on Iain Dale’s All Talk on 75th anniversary of Jo Grimond’s election
I read Iain Dale’s weekly newsletter. Before you rush to judgement, there is always a picture of some very cute dogs at the ...