Whatever Happened to Labour’s Legitimate Left?
Historically the Labour party has had a left and a right wing with the latter usually in the ascendancy. Much of that was down to the trade unions being led by moderates who were happy to use their...
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We Need To Do More For Our Veterans
This year is the 75th anniversary of the D Day landings and we are seeing a lot of media coverage of this important historical event. When I think of D Day I think of my Grandfather Denis Warwick who...
View ArticleThe Lib Dems have become an establishment party
Liberalism has a rich history of radicalism from the People’s Budget, to Beveridge through to the more recent opposition to the Iraq war. The latter event had the effect of placing the Lib Dems to the...
View ArticleMen of honour
There comes a time when even the best of us decide in is time to exit stage left. We saw that this week with both Norman Lamb and Vince Cable announcing that they will be standing down from parliament...
View ArticleLiberalism Down Under
Australians recently went to the polls and elected a Liberal government. Unfortunately, Down Under the Liberal Party is a conservative body firmly fixed on the centre right of Aussie politics who with...
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I now know I have PTSD and it is Liberating
I am not quite sure when I first encountered the ‘Black Dog’ but he has pretty much been on the premises for the last ten years. The crash as I like to call it came on 9th October 2009 when the...
View ArticleBack to the future
I have spent a fair bit of time in recent years studying the history of the Liberal Party. One period that particularly interests me is the years following the end of World War One when Labour replaced...
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