The Real Blog

"We're British people, with all their qualities and faults, with feelings and emotions, and not denationalised, impersonal polyglot...

The Liberal Revival has been woven through my life, and especially my adult life.  I wrote this in the early hours of this morning for the G...

I'm coming to the conclusion that the Great British Public (they don't call it that any more) is not nearly as switched off the elec...

I went to a school reunion last weekend.  I'm not sure why these events are so nerve-wracking - perhaps we are afraid of encountering ou...

There never was an election campaign in history, at least outside the USA, so desperately lacking in authenticity. Yes, there are some exc...

I’ve spent the last weekend partly in the constituency of Wells, to help in the Lib Dem bid to get Tessa Munt re-elected. I was hardly a lo...

It isn't an uncommon experience during the election to stare open-mouthed, night after night, at the television - staggered that nobody ...