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I have a feeling that, whenever people talk about reaching a compromise between different Liberal imperatives - as Nick Clegg has about the ...

Well, my small but significant electorate have spoken (dammit!) and I am no longer on the federal policy committee for the Lib Dems. Since...

So Bush House has shut up shop for the first time since 1941.  Sad.  But one thing you won't hear from the BBC is the true origins of...

There is speculation in the newspapers that the Blair and Mandelson Show is poised to make a re-entry into mainstream UK politics, to make t...

The new planning framework promises that communities with their own local plans, setting out local pirorities, will inherit the eart.  We...

Just for a couple of days, they are selling my latest e-book about the lost history of the allotments movement for free on Amazon. Can you...

There is no more conservative nation on earth than the English when it comes to money (the Scots by comparison are real money innovators; re...