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Julian Astle, Centre for Reform’s intellectual-about-town, has launched a hugely important debate in the Guardian . It is a critical questio...

Is it just me, or have the Lib Dems had a better week?  There is a sure-footedness about the party that suddenly seems to be more apparent, ...

I’ve just been on the Radio 3 programme Night Waves – there was also a fascinating interview with Margaret Drabble and feature on the revit...

I know I should feel excited, even vindicated, that the Lib Dems have exerted their influence to make the NHS proposals a little less terrif...

The first documentary by Adam Curtis ( All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace ) a couple of weeks ago was fascinating and timely. It w...

Here I am in a French hotel room, watching BBC World – it gets just a little exhausting after a while – and who should come on but the Lib D...

For most of this year, the publication of the Treasury’s Public Service Reform white paper has been horribly imminent. David Cameron even ga...