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Blog recent posts

• The Trump legacy: a reminder from history, and a mammoth task for Biden

17 January 2021

• Harsh realities of Brexit appearing: is this what people voted for?

2 January 2021

• Not disregarding Tony Blair because of Iraq

30 December 2020

• Is creeping consolidation of power in the Executive a sign of authoritarianism in post-Brexit Britain?

29 December 2020

• Rules or guidance over Covid19: an authoritarian problem

28 December 2020

• Ursula von der Leyen gets it right on Brexit, alas

25 December 2020

• The Brexit deal is done: a shabby Christmas present from a shabby government

25 December 2020

• An extra concern about bullying in government

22 November 2020

• More than relief at the election of Biden & Harris

10 November 2020

• “No deal” Brexit: are people thinking this means things carry on as before?

2 October 2020

• What responsible opposition is, and what it isn’t... (it’s more than attacking Tories and demanding voting reform)

5 September 2020

• The next coalition?

24 August 2020

• Did Dominic Cummings pull a fast one in his lockdown-bending trip to Durham?

13 June 2020

• Dominic Cummings: denying reality over lockdown and Brexit?

26 May

• Universal Basic Income: a sensible economic response to Covid-19

8 April

• Covid-19, Brexit, and denying reality

26 March

• “Getting back” what was never lost: the tragedy and the impossible task

25 March

• Rejoining the EU will be right# but it's too soon to push for it

26 February

• Brexit arrives: a day of sadness and grief

1 February

• The age time bomb around Brexit

31 December

• General Election 2019: Labour's failure dressed up as a Tory mandate

14 December

• Brexit party standing aside for the Tories coinciding with a Chinese investment decision - both are parts of a much bigger picture

13 December

• Repercussions of a sadness around Brexit

20 October 2019

• The sinister side of expecting people to produce ID in order to vote

15 October 2019

• Avoiding Boris Johnson’s “People v Politicians election” trap

7 October 2019

• Brexit and the blindness of ambition, through the lens of the Mahabharata

27th August 2019

• Taking the government to court (again) over Brexit

17th July 2019

• The People’s Vote needs to ask a different question if it’s not to be a re-run of 2016

2 July 2019

• Remembering the liberty message of the Liberal Democrats among the Brexit madness

23 June 2019

• Leave.EU (wrongly) blaming fallout of referendum on Sadiq Khan

23 June 2019

• Police called to the home of Boris Johnson: a Trump moment?

22 June 2019

• Lessons from the Mahabharata in the context of D-day and Brexit

5 June 2019

• Shadow and Theresa May’s downfall

4 June 2019

• Building on the European Election results

2 June 2019

• European election campaign priorities for the Liberal Democrats

25 April 2019

• The nerve David Lammy touched

24 April 2019

• Notre Dame fire: reactions showing how European we are

17 April 2019

• Dangerous support for a “strong leader”

10 April 2019

• The chaos around Brexit in terms of Earl Hopper’s Fourth Basic Assumption

25 March 2019

• Why are some people (wrongly) claiming petition to retract Article 50 notice has been fiddled?

21 March 2019

• Possible backlash if Brexit doesn’t happen — or if it doesn’t

19 March 2019

• Is it time for Theresa May to admit that Brexit is impossible and retract the Article 50 notice?

18 March 2019

• Welcoming the Independent Group of MPs

19th February 2019

• Out of BrexitChaos part 2: Government of National Unity

24 January 2019

• Out of Brexit Chaos, part 1: People’s Vote

24 January 2019

• Projecting imperialist fantasies onto Europe

21 January 2019

• Looking beyond Brexit — to help us escape Brexit

4 January 2019

• Xenophobia and Brexit (again)

29 December 2018

• Brexit as an attack by the wealthy on the rest

28 December 2018

• Demography undermining the legitimacy of the 2016 referendum

27 December 2018

• The People’s Vote is not in the bag, alas

18 December 2018

• Speech to East Herts and Broxbourne Liberal Democrats AGM 21 November 2018

posted 17 December 2018

• What madness is this? Approval of Brexit deal soon after Armistice day

25 November 2018

• Quasi-religious support for Brexit

4th September 2018

• Brexit through the lens of The Mahabharata

4th September 2018

• Major donation to The People’s Vote

31 August 2018

• Abandon Tory #BrexitShambles...

14 July 2018

• European Arrest Warrant — the UK ignoring its own “red lines”

13 July 2018

• Withdrawing from Galileo: Brexiteers acting as if we are being expelled from the EU

20 May 2018

• Trump’s failed promises, and imperialist fantasies around Brexit

20 May 2018

• Rex Tillerson: a veiled attack on Trump, and a cultural problem

19 May 2018

• Time for Labour to become an Opposition on Brexit

8 May 2018

• Plastics pledge: another reason for the single market

7 May 2018

• Are Liberal Democrats getting the messaging wrong over Brexit?

7 May 2018

• Getting it wrong over the Skripal assassination attempt

9 April 2018

• Brexit on the streets in Bishop’s Stortford

8 April 2018

• Was Corbyn right to sack Owen Smith, after he advocated a referendum on the final terms of a Brexit deal?

8 April 2018

• Not dead yet: the Good Friday Agreement

6 March 2018

• False allegations against Jeremy Corbyn: chaos as things shift on Brexit

5 March 2018

• On the streets in Ware with East Herts for Europe

24th February 2018

• A snapshot of the chaos of Brexit

28th January 2018

• A snapshot of the chaos of Brexit

28th January 2018

• Responding to Labour Remain

27th January 2018

• Mental health realities... and Donald Trump

17th January 2018

• Brexit: a callous attack on those least able to bear it

27th December 2017

• Anxieties put onto a royal engagement

30th November 2017

• Catalonia: the case for a federal Europe

29th October 2017

• Theresa May in an impossible position

28th October 2017

• Brexit: exacerbating the wealth divide

28 August 2017

• A government fails

15 July 2017

• The not-very-great Repeal Bill: a power grab from No.10

15 July 2017

• New members of the Liberal Democrats, En Marche and non-target seats

24 June 2017, originally 22 May 2017

• In the world of the Corbyn bounce

24 June 2017

• Welcoming the new president of France

18 May 2017

• Brexit on the doorsteps

17 April 2017

• Article 50 under way

14 April 2017

• Moving to a Chinese way of doing things

21 March 2017

• The other side of Brexit: What about the Leavers?

16 March 2017

• Welcoming the new leader of the free world: Angela Merkel

21 January 2017

• The wise leadership we need: a deeper perspective

17 Jaunary 2017

• A time for wise leadership

16 January 2017

• European defence possibilities

31 December 2016

• Is the tide turning on Brexit?

29 December 2016

• Lessons from Trump’s digital campaign

22 December 2016

• Wise words from Andrew Duff and the Lords on Brexit

21 December 2016

• Trump’s election: a bigger picture

2 November 2016

• Witney could be a turning point for the Lib Dems

22 November 2016

• Scapegoating of immigrants

24 October 2016

• Brexit and the new class war

13 October 2016

• Migrants: welcome and fear

12 September 2016

• An election or not?

12 September 2016

• Reclaiming the centre ground

26 August 2016

• A time to grieve?

22 August 2016

• Chosen trauma and memories of the war

28 July 2016

• A Liberal Democrat future

23 July 2016

• Engaging with disgruntled Leave voters

20 July 2016

• Beware the 1930s

8 July 2016

• When people realise they have been lied to...

29 June 2016

During EU referendum campaign:

• Michael Dougan: deeper thoughts on EU

21 June 2016

• Different ways of reading Jo Cox’ murderer

20 June 2016

• Listen to the Bank of England

19 June 2016

• Brexit is not the way to give politicians a bloody nose

14 June 2016

• Understanding the fears of those leaning towards Brexit

13 June 2016

• Why the EU matters to me

12 June 2016

• Time to come clean about immigration: it is a good thing

9 June 2016

• Beneath the untruths

8 June 2016

• Sovereignty, patriotism and “Taking our country back”

6 June 2106

• Migration and house prices

2 June 2106

• Democracy and the EU

1 June 2106

• Distorted claims about Turkey

29 May 2106

• The fishing industry and the EU

23 May 2106

• It’s not £350 Million a week to Brussels, and we could learn from Norway

19 May 2106

• The EU and security: why Boris Johnson is so wrong

12 May 2106

• Migrants not affecting low wages...

11 May 2106

• European and local

26 April 2106

• Yanis Varoufakis: a Greek supporting the EU

19 April

• Immigration and low pay

13 April

• The other side of migration

9 April

• The Queen and the EU

29 March

• Better law-making in the EU

17 March

• The EU-wide migrant problem

15 March

• Refugees, Turkey and the width of the Channel

9 March

• Iain Duncan Smith and “facts”

2 March

• “Who will speak for England?”: the Daily Mail getting it wrong

5 February

• A wise ALDE proposal on the refugee crisis

1 February

• Introducing Cambridge for Europe

28 January

• Not turning the clock back: the EU and our story

19 January

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