Author Archives: Richard Thomas

Subscribe

1. Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
2. Like us on Facebook
3. Subscribe to our feed
4. Sign-up for our daily email digest

Most Read

1. That by-election
2. One year on, and I’m still finding it hard to feel pride
3. Why did the Welsh Liberal Democrats underperform?
4. Mathew on Monday: Starmer’s resignation and an increasingly ungovernable country
5. Starmer goes, and the uncertainty returns…

Search

Op-eds

• Liberals and the unions: time to talk again (Jack Meredith)
• Andy Burnham’s NHS record: Devolution, delivery and the limits of local power (Iain Donaldson)
• Huge victory for Campaign for Gigi (Tom Morrison)
• Andy Burnham’s record on policing: Success story or missed opportunity? (Iain Donaldson)
• Burnham: Strategic implications (Paul Reynolds)

• The rigged system Freda Jackson overcame to become an actress in the 1930s
• Lib Dems pick Richard Kilpatrick as candidate for the Greater Manchester Mayoral election
• The Joy of Six 1538
• Professor Joad sees his play at the Theatre Royal, Northampton
• The DVLA's problem with number plates
• Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: The Night
• School uniform, boys in skirts and Marcuse's 'repressive tolerance'
• We have no idea what history will say about Keir Starmer and it may not be right anyway
• Lib Dem billboards attack Farage's £5m "reward for Brexit"
• Is Kier Starmer the new John Major?

Recent Comments

• David Warren
  I have been a trade union member since 1980 and for 20 years was a full time representative of the postal workers union CWU. Yes Liberals do need to relate m...
• Peter Chambers
  Paul, thanks for this incisive piece on the relationship between the Labour Party and the privation of state provision in the UK. I agree with much of what you ...
• Carl Pierce
  Sam - Your not alone. Ill be ashamed if my party treats you unfairly....
• Martin Eggleston
  @Tom Bailey we have our very own example in the UK; Wally Stott composed the Hancocks Half Hour theme tune and was the arranger for many Goon Shows, and albums ...
• Peter Hirst
  Related to this concern for standards in nursery care, should we be looking at the metric of school readiness? It is shocking that so few children are ready for...