The Real Blog

I keep seeing concerned Facebook messages and letters to Lib Dem News about the ambition set out by Nick Clegg to lower taxes. I've see...

It isn’t that somehow making sure doctors are competent, and stay that way, is a bad idea. The problem is the way these things get measured...

I had my first experience of a school admissions appeal panel on Friday, a strange experience. Robin had been denied a place at our local p...

So the McCanns are innocent. Well, there’s a surprise (by which I mean it isn’t)… Let’s leave aside for a second the kind of pressure they ...

Of all the post-Henley posts, I find myself most in agreement with Bernard Salmon - people will not vote Lib Dem (certainly sustainably) unl...

Poor old Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci, slipping by the week out of respectable history – Columbus as a brutal maniac, Cabot as a failure and...

The four police forces which have rejected Whitehall targets are just the beginning. There is a revolution about to begin in the way our pu...