Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Vileness on the internet: if even jail sentences don't make people stop and think...

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The news that the utterly uncharming individual who used Twitter to make anonymous rape threats against Stella Creasy and Caroline Criado...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

#FACup Third Qualifying Round draw - it's a grudge match... at home

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So, the road to the FA Cup proper is a little clearer now, after yesterday's draw at Wembley. And, it's a game with a bit of spic...

George Osborne: paying peanuts and expecting not to get monkeys?

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We will go on restraining public sector pay. It was just one line in George Osborne's speech at the Conservative Party Conference in ...

John Redwood's mask slips - the freedom to choose is apparently a conditional one

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There have always been those who have thought that John Redwood has come down to us from Mars, such is the dryness of his conservatism an...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Might this finally be the end of the English Party?

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In a motion which runs to rather less than the character limit of a Tweet, the future of the English Party might be made to look something ...

Gibraltar: a brief guide to the Rock

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My first impressions of Gibraltar were not, to be honest, very good ones. We had grabbed dinner at a restaurant in Casemates Square which w...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Simon Wright - a reminder of why we should cut our MPs some slack sometimes

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If you asked most Liberal Democrat members to name ten of our MPs off the top of their heads, some would be no surprise. The likes of Vince...

#FACup, Second Qualifying Round - Boris Johnson, your boys took one hell of a beating... eventually

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The two teams shake hands before the match, Marketmen in red, Tigers in orange and black, funnily enough So, three o'clock came, an...

#FACup, Second Qualifying Round - setting the scene as the Cup dream returns to Mid Suffolk

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After my day out last season, sponsoring a home game of our local Ryman League, Division One North, football team - Needham Market FC - I h...

Who'd be a Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate, eh?

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In my spare time I have, for many years, performed the role of Returning Officer for Local Parties across the South East and, latterly, Ea...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A quick flit across the Schengen border...

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It is very pleasant to take a morning stroll when you're in a new place. It helps with orientation, blows away the cobwebs, and allows ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Race for the Party Presidency: what do I think of the show so far?

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So, we're back to four candidates again with the emergence of Daisy Cooper as a new contender. So, has anything changed? Well, we n...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Tallinn it as it is, on the geopolitical frontline...

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It has been remiss of me not to report on our visit to Estonia, and now that I have a bit of time at my disposal, I really feel obliged to ...

The secret, I'm told, is in being somewhere else...

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I'm a great believer in the concept of somewhere else. As an Englishman with a rather quirky backstory - I was born here, unlike either...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Devolution: now that we've found love, what are we gonna do with it?

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So, Scotland having voted to remain in the Union but with an understanding that there will be greater devolution to their Parliament, we ca...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Scotland: and if the world were to come to an end tomorrow...

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It is, I am reminded, now less than twelve hours until Scottish voters start to stream into polling stations in order to determine their fu...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

ALDE: doing good, one small policy proposal at a time...

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I am, as a politician (and I use that term in its loosest possible sense), a gradualist at heart. Perhaps it is the slightly diffident burea...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

And so, another journey to the home of the Salamander...

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It is that time of year again, when your correspondent travels abroad to carry out the solemn duty of advising European liberalism as to its...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Scotland: you gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together?

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If the polls are to be believed, the margin between those intending to vote 'yes' to independence in the Autumn, and those intendin...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Liberal Democrats: try and keep your head up to the sky?

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If all that I knew of the Liberal Democrats was the pronouncements from the centre and the debate on Liberal Democrat Voice, I would probab...
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