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I had a nightmare journey back from Paris with the family on the Eurostar yesterday. Actually, to be precise, the journey was fine, it was ...

The problem is very simple and rather stark. The kind of public spending cuts coming down the line are unprecedented, with many government ...

What is to become of me - I am agreeing with Simon Jenkins nearly every time I open the Evening Standard (though not, for some reason, when...

Lib Dem policy committee chair Richard Grayson has written a long article in today’s New Statesman , which has allowed them to put a pictur...

Regular readers of this blog (if there are any) will know that the combination of old-fashioned and radically modern is, in my opinion, ofte...

There seems to be a growing sense, which I’ve only noticed in the past week – and partly, I think, because of The Independent’s cheer-leadi...

Life being what it is, I've only just read Timothy Garton Ash's very welcome article on the urgent need for Liberals in British poli...