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The Guardian have just published my appeal to Tim Farron, which I reproduce here. You can also see it in the original , along with the predi...

One of the key moments I remember from politics in my twenties was when Harold Macmillan, then the aged Earl of Stockton, intervened in the ...

Well. My first reaction when I woke in the night and heard the news was a rather cowardly thought that I should take down the blog post I p...

I am definitely pro-European. I am a Liberal, and I will vote for Remain when I get home. Bloggers are supposed to predict, and I predict - ...

First, an explanation. Ten days ago, I posted a blog about the peculiar meltdown of the Southern Railways franchise. By the following week, ...

I have to admit that I've been a little blown away. I've been blogging for some years now and, even when I was doing it every day, I...

NOTE: This blog was written in June 2016 and is now largely out of date. The latest situation is covered here ... “The thing is, I don’t b...