The Real Blog

Like everybody else, I have no idea what will happen at the next general election.  As a Lib Dem, and therefore congenitally optimistic, I b...

Well, people say to me with conviction: the Liberal Democrats are hopelessly split – between libertarian free marketeers and socialists. I...

The history of England over the past thousand years can be divided neatly in two, it seems to me.  For the first five centuries, there was a...

Over the past six months, and thanks to Baroness Kramer, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, and some others, I’ve immersed myself in the issu...

I had the great pleasure listening yesterday to the NHS blogger Roy Lilley demolishing the vacuous research by Portsmouth University for Pan...

"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, " said the great economist John Mayn...

How do you get your adverts talked about when you have little or no budget for actually posting them on billboards? I was asked a similar ...