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Op-eds

• We need a tax rise to fund additional defence spending  (Simon McGrath)
• Putting Liberal values into practice in the heart of London (Victor Chamberlain)
• Sanctions against Israeli settlers welcome – but inadequate (Jonathan Brown)
• Protecting children shouldn’t mean abolishing their right to privacy (Tara Foster)
• AI and Liberal Democracy (Robin Ashby)

• Lib Dems successful in tricky by-election defence
• Pope Leo speaks for all liberals when he condemns racism, supports migration, and supports Ukraine
• Growing Asylum backlog undermines Government's case
• Council by-election results scorecard 2026-2027
• Brechtian television: Leo McKern in Galileo (1964)
• Good news on political donations?
• Conference booked
• New chair of North Northamptonshire Council stands down over social media posts
• Moving on from Whickham South and Sunniside
• The Joy of Six 1531

Recent Comments

• Jenny Barnes
  We probably do need to increase tax to fund defence. Borrowing depends on the markets beleiving that the country can afford to pay it back, which would requir...
• Nick Baird
  Thank you Simon - I agree that a tax rise is the way to fund increased defence expenditure. My issue with Defence Bonds is not that it increases borrowing, b...
• Nonconformistradical
  "(like the Treasury?) I am very, very concerned about the MOD’s ability to spend the money productively. That’s a comment aimed both at it being bad at proc...
• David Le Grice
  I would wonder whether it's possible to make VAT more progressive by identifying those items that wealthy people don't actually spend much more on and exempting...
• Suzanne Fletcher
  I agree we need to raise taxes for this and other spending needed. However not VAT, that impacts on poorer people on a lot of things they have to spend money o...