I've blogged before about how successful the Liberal Democrat membership incentive scheme has been both at encouraging local parties to do more membership recruitment and retention work and also at…
The US and UK are today more divided than at any time in living memory. As we have seen this weekend with more people protesting against Donald Trump's election than attended his inauguration, the…
Not long ago the Lincolnshire County Council decided to reject the devolution plans on offer from central government. Although I voted to accept them as a first, rather small, step towards giving…
What will Trump and May do as even white-collar jobs look set to be eradicated by Artificial Intelligence? There's a lot to worry about these days: hard Brexit, Trump's protectionism, Diego Costa's…
It's gone midnight and I'm sitting here in the Campaign Office at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, on Snow Hill in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent and I have been worrying about a number of things. 1. How do I get…
The House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee has published a report including a call for state funding of political parties to be linked to their progress in improving their own diversity. As…
Rather relevant given my earlier comments about the importance of Liberal Democrat Parliamentary unity on Europe is today's news that there will be a three line whip for the party's MPs to oppose…
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has written to Jeremy Corbyn to call on him to clear up 'once and for all' his party's position on Article 50. Dear Jeremy,
We have two by-elections to fight within five weeks, so this is urgent. It was bad enough that Prime Minister May declared on January 17th her intention for Britain to leave the single market and…
The government's Brexit strategy is a betrayal of values that has stunned Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron If 2016 felt like a never-ending cycle of shocks and surprises, then 2017 already shows no…