The Real Blog

I have been keeping this blog now for more than five years, sometimes more enthusiastically than other times.  I began it during the Lib Dem...

I found myself on Start the Week this morning with Ken Loach and others talking about class, and talking about his film Spirit of '45. ...

I'm very grateful to the King of the Lib Dem bloggers, Jonathan Calder , for reminding me that it is William Cobbett's 250th birthda...

More than a decade ago, I wrote a book called The Tyranny of Numbers , which was an early attempt to puncture a hole in the cult of statisti...

There I was in Portcullis House a few mornings ago, for the launch of The Green Book , and I have been wondering what the answer is to the c...

There I was encouraging mainstream political parties to be a little more populist in order to beat the joke parties, from the Tea Party to U...

Now I’ve heard the lot.  Sitting on Guildford Station early this morning, I heard an admonishing computerised message – presumably inspire...