Lembit Opik: real men hate women
I wasn’t going to blog about Lembit’s new column (fnarr! fnarr! snork!) – I figure I’ve fulfilled my quota of Lembit bashing for the year. But then he went and said something stupid: “This is part of...
View ArticleOne Year On: Orange Bookers Found Wanting
If the newspapers are anything to go by, Nick Clegg has taken the party irreversibly to the right; we are all economic liberals now. Strange then that, on the day Clegg marks his first year as leader...
View ArticleCommenting Freely on Nick Clegg
My article on Clegg’s Demos speech is now up on Comment is Free: At a time when the Department for Work and Pensions is to be put under renewed pressure, limiting talk of social justice to tax cuts is...
View ArticleWhy I just can’t get enough of bannng lightbulbs
I wrote my article earlier this week on the Daily Mail’s bonkers line about a sinister EU plot to ban traditional lightbulbs primarily to point out quite how many non-facts were in the story. I should...
View ArticleWe’re justified and not ancient: introducing the SLF*
The Social Liberal Forum has just launched. Take a peek. * If you don’t get the reference you are either too young or too old. Deal with it. But since I’m in a good mood:
View ArticleAirbrushing: will Jo Swinson blind us with science?
Having been away for a week, I didn’t comment on the proposals to ban the airbrushing of models which will be debated at the Lib Dem conference next month. The real problem about commenting on this is...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Charlotte Gore is not a witch – she’s a Nutter!
Okay, it isn’t particularly exclusive, but it does happen to be true. Sort of. Anyway, now that I have your attention, I just wanted to respond to a couple of points that came out of Charlotte’s post...
View ArticleAre only classical liberals interested in saving money?
I was intrigued to see Mark Littlewood’s suggestion that Nick Clegg’s latest “In The Know” initiative is evidence of his innate classical liberalism. Maybe Mark is right and inside Clegg there is a...
View ArticleQuality of Life (1) – Introduction
I’ve got out of the habit of blogging my responses to the Lib Dem policy consultation papers of late but the Quality of Life one caught my eye and I thought I’d have a stab at it. My overall response...
View ArticleAndrew Hickey on drugs: half right
I’ve signally failed to blog about what has become known as Alan Johnson’s Nutt Sack. The appalling way in which this government is sliding into irrelevance – and how Her Majesty’s Opposition is always...
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Why the Lib Dems need to be saved from “true liberalism”
I’m in the odd situation of having a vote in the Labour leadership elections via my union, but having much more interest in the Lib Dem contest (and no vote). A lot of this is because I know the...
View ArticleStephen Fry’s fence sitting is dangerous but a stupid idea
Stephen Fry has pronounced the death of classical liberalism. As someone who watched their political party destroy itself after dredging up that ossified Victorian ideology up from the deep and find...
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