Recent Comments Mick Taylor One has to look at this in the mid to long term. At some point (not soon for me I hope) baby boomers like me will drop off the end and a whole chunk of pensione ...

There is an outside, long shot chance of saving Ukraine and the Western Alliance—Buy American. I don’t mean American cars or cereal. I mean something which really costs—American weaponry ...

It’s easy to argue that today’s failures – public services, low investment, poor productivity, decaying infrastructure, environmental degradation, etc – are the result of 10-15 years of economic ...

Today at PMQs, Ed Davey asked Keir Starmer to request the extradition of Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan to face trial. Watch here. https://youtu.be/pH98_k47kgA ...

What the hell happened in Barnet? That was our best ward there, with our candidates averaging 26.2% at the last election. Not only should the local party have thrown everything at it but it’s in ...

It’s almost 3 years since I first had Covid, an experience which has made my life a lot smaller. My road to recovery from Long Covid has been erratic and very, very slow. It’s only now that I ...

Six years after his premature death at age 77, Paddy Ashdown is making a comeback in the interests of the party’s immediate future. Well, not really. But Paddy’s name does adorn a new ...

Friedrich Merz is steaming ahead—and he hasn’t even formed his government. The string bean leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is certain to be chancellor as soon as he has ...

Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the inspirational women we know and to recognise that we still have a long way to go to achieve equality for half the population in almost ...

A while ago someone was looking for what they called a brief non-wonk’s guide to liberalism. In a fit of activism I wrote one. Once I had fleshed it out, I was surprised by the centrality the ...

On this International Women’s Day, I want to celebrate the greatest hero in my life — my mother, Amtal. My mother is a woman of extraordinary strength, resilience, and unwavering principles.

I’m not sure why Tom Gordon is reading Brave New World when he could just watch the news. He said on Twitter: Happy World Book Day. I’m currently reading Brave New World for the first time ...