The Liberal Democrats are not the Conservative Party. This statement may seem quite obvious to you or I, but it seems to elude our current leadership; in the Autumn 2025 Conference, Ed Davey would state in his closing speech, "Come, Conservative friends. Help us save our country." Now on the surface level, this makes sense to ask for, under the 2023 Seat Redistribution, we held only 8 Seats, and of the whopping 64 Seats we gained in 2024, 60 came from former Tory Constiuencies, and only 4 were from SNP Constituencies. Clearly, the disaffected moderate Tories had come to the ...
"Nine of the groups are being run from Sri Lanka, three have admins in Nigeria, and the admins of six other groups appear to be located in Mexico, the US, Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Kosovo. The remaining eleven have hidden their locations, but conform to the same pattern of fake address - AI memes - gaming video creator, suggesting they are similarly moderated."Katherine Denkinson explains how foreign entrepreneurs are monetising the clicks of British racists. Rebecca Hamer on the common thread that links abusers, from grooming gangs to Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. "His speech on Monday was a ...
One of the strange things about US democracy (and there are many – as there are in the UK) is that when a party is defeated in a Presidential election it immediately ceases to have a recognised leader and wanders through the political wilderness like thousands of headless chickens. No party has better demonstrated the above more than the Democratic party since the morning of November 6th 2024. They seem to have gone through a soul-searching exercise that has come up with very little in the way of answers as to why they lost, for a second time, to Trump. ...
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Lib Dem Donna Harris leads Lambeth Council in rejecting committee seat for sex-charge councillor
[IMG: Headshot of Cllr Donna Harris] When a review of Lambeth Council's committee structure proposed putting a councillor who had been arrested on charges of sexual assault, exposure and controlling and coercive behaviour on a committee that investigates wrongdoing, Lib Dem leader of the opposition Cllr Donna Harris was having none of it. Donna, who is the chair of Lib Dem Women, the official body in the Lib Dems representing women, led the efforts to get this stopped. For a week she tried, unsuccessfully, to block the move behind the scenes. However, when the appointments came to Council recently, she ...
For decades the current governing party in the UK seems to have assumed that economic growth comes from the blunt instrument of government borrowing and spending. But as state debt has approached 100% of GDP, they have had to think beyond that. Unfortunately, this has not amounted to much, with ideological barriers and lack of experience among decision-makers hindering reforms. Labour tend to resort to photogenic one-off remedies, which may or may not ultimately contribute to any beneficial growth; a heavily subsidised weapons deal, a fantasy 'new-town', or a trade deal of exaggerated benefit. Economic growth is not quite as ...
The fiftieth anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's death put me in mind of this wonderful track from Scott Walker's album Tilt. In a Guardian article last Saturday, Olivia Laing argued that Pasolini's warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times.
The judges' decision is in, and BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award. They also noted this comment from the story below:"There's a kind of misconception that this road is named after Prince Andrew... now Mr Mountbatten Windsor," said Gurney, a Conservative county, district and parish councillor. In fact, she said, research indicated it was named before he was born, in honour of his grandfather, who died in 1944, and was father of Prince Philip, formerly the Duke of Edinburgh.That him above with his missus.
** UPDATE 5th November - we have now been updated that, unfortunately, this event has been cancelled ** In advance of this year's West End Christmas Fortnight this Saturday - 8th November - from 11am until 4pm, there's a Christmas market taking place. It is at the Albert Halls in Tullideph Road - all welcome!
The Guardian reports that Nigel Farage has backtracked on his party's election promise to cut £90bn of taxes, accusing Labour and the Tories of "wrecking the public finances" and saying Reform UK would need to get public spending under control first. The paper says that Farage rejected suggestions he had been forced to break manifesto promises in order to gain economic credibility, suggesting the proposal had only ever been an "aspiration". However, the substance of his speech suggests that Reform's real agenda is to cut benefits, cut the minimum wage, raise retirement age, and means test pensions: Reform's manifesto committed ...
