Ed Davey: Tougher sanctions needed on Israeli Government now to "stop the carnage" in Gaza Badenoch reshuffle: Titanic captain appoints iceberg apologist to key role Laura Anne Jones' defection – The Conservatives are clearly dead as a political force in Wales Lib Dems attack "SNP's dirty secret" as environmental targets look set to be missed Greene comments as west coast ferry faces months out of action Ed Davey: Tougher sanctions needed on Israeli Government now to "stop the carnage" in Gaza Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has called on the government to urgently bring in tougher sanctions on the Israeli ...
So, Jeremy Corbyn has announced, sort of, that he may be launching a new leftwing party. As a spectator of the Labour Party, I watched Labour in 2017 sing "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" and get carried away by the Leader's presence at Glastonbury. Oh what a wonderful time Labour members were having as they deluded themselves that Corbyn would lead them to victory and a socialist utopia, unencumbered by
Firstly, apologies for the delay in posting these – an overrunning Parish Council meeting took precedence, I'm afraid... Cunliffe report: "Wild West" of water companies must come to an end ACOBA: Lib Dems say ministerial payouts for disgraced ministers should be scrapped altogether Ofwat scrap: Persistent sewage dumpers must be held criminally responsible The Welsh Liberal Democrats respond to concerns over SFS at the Royal Welsh Show The Welsh Liberal Democrats respond to the Family Farm Tax at the Royal Welsh Show SNP must stop pretending Scotland is immune from sewage scandal Cunliffe report: "Wild West" of water companies must ...
Liberal Democrat Newswire #199 came out a few days ago and you can now also read it in full below. But if you'd like to get future editions emailed direct to you as soon as they are published, just sign up now: Welcome to Lib Dem Newswire #199 which draws on the last time our party system was upended for lessons for the Liberal Democrats in this Parliament, when the same thing may be happening again. Just as I've finished writing this, news has come through of a big Lib Dem policy win: [IMG: Lib Dems claim win after water ...
Alan Robertshaw, barrister at law, explains the role he used to fulfil for a daily newspaper at Wapping before it went to press. Defamation. Court orders. Confidentiality. They're all here. There was never a successful action against an article he had signed off, though his ignorance of football once almost got the paper in trouble with the solicitor general. I recommend this channel if you're interested in topical and informed comment on the law - and nice views of Cornwall.
I was invited to bring along our most recent goat kids to the Whinnies Wanderers, the parent and toddler group based in the Whinnies Community Garden in Sunniside, in my council ward. They went down a treat. I've been invited to come back next week. By then we may have more goat kids. Florence, our boss nanny, is very pregnant and I expect her to give birth on Friday.
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Book Review... How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomeran...
This review appears in the new issue of Liberator. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler Peter Pomerantsev Faber, 2025; £10.99 In September 1941 German civilians began to pick up enticing new radio broadcasts. In the salty language of an army veteran from Berlin, 'Der Chef' complained bitterly about food rationing and excoriated leading Nazis as inefficient and sexually corrupt. "It's a pity we can't cut our meat from the buttocks of the SS." But Der Chef was not a disaffected insider: he was in ...
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 to the force attempting to rebuild trust with Londoners with a two-year plan making fresh commitments on community policing, in its A New Met for London, external strategy. A key commitment was to have at least one 24/7 front counter in each of London's 32 boroughs to make it easier for people to report crime. But the BBC has seen leaked plans for the Met Police that ...
Vince Cable has been writing on matters of tax for Comment Central. Before we get into his piece, it's worth mentioning that he will be at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 20th August. I bought my tickets the other day (alongside tickets to see Bella Mackie and Maggie O'Farrell) and you can too, here. Here's the blurb for the event: Former Secretary of State for Business and leader of the Liberal Democrats, the astute economist Vince Cable has settled into life after frontline politics as a prolific author on global affairs and the world economy. Today, he talks to us ...
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 was full, I knew nothing and I wanted to do everything. It took a few goes before I got the hang of it. In this article, I've not attempted to explain the exact definition of a fringe event or the correct procedure for a reference back (there are other guides to these things). Instead, I've considered the "survival" aspect as it pertains to the neurodivergent community and, at 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 issue contains: WE'RE IN THE SERVICE SECTOR. Politics has changed, with transactional voters looking at what parties can provide, and with little traditional loyalty. How should the Lib Dems respond asks Julian Ingram SQUEEZING REFORM OUT OF OXFORDSHIRE Reform won just one seat in Oxfordshire as battles between other parties denied them any space. Neil Fawcett explains how it was done WE CAN BEAT ...
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 need something else in place before the next General Election. FPTP only makes sense if there are just two parties. The emergence of Labour as a political force a century ago could have led to a three-way discussion of the nation's future. Instead, FPTP meant we swapped one two-party system for another. With rumours of a new left-wing party around Jeremy Corbyn potentially taking half of Labour's vote we ...
The old boy takes aim at the party's leader and its president, and in the process reveals something about his Home for Well-Behaved Orphans that I didn't know (though I had my suspicions). I still wonder why there are so many orphans in Rutland though. Tuesday Is it asking too much to expect our party's leader and president to keep a secret? It seems it is. The president recently, on his electric blog, quoted the leader to the effect that the intelligence services like to recruit orphans. (This is something I have been at pains to keep under my hat, ...
Surely the best Beatles cover ever recorded by a Slovenian band that uses totalitarian and militaristic imagery for satirical effect?
Residents have highlighted to us regular flooding at the City Road/Tullideph Road junction next to the Morrisons Daily store - see photo. We have raised this with the Roads Maintenance Partnership to ensure that the roads drainage is checked and is operating properly and were assured the street drainage would be cleared out.
This week's publication of a major report into the water industry is significant for its wide ranging recommendations and its condemnation of the way that the whole sector has been managed and has been sucked dry of valuable resources since privatisation. As the Independent reports, the review, led by former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Jon Cunliffe, has recommended far-reaching changes to the way the water system is regulated, calling the current landscape "fragmented and overlapping", and suggesting that ministers should ditch Ofwat and simplify the system with a powerful regulator looking at every area. It also advised removing ...
