Author Archives: Robert Dobson

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• The next general election will be a Conservative-facing one: some stats (David McHardy)
• An election review from the front line (Tim Bearder)
• Did we spend 2019 expecting a 1980s-style realignment of politics? (Paul Walter)
• Could a Tickbox campaign drive Right and Left back together? (David Boyle)
• Javid is cutting the UK’s nose off to spite our faces (Paul Walter)

• Lib Dem peers win vote to protect child refugees
• Falls Prevention Talk 27 January 2020
• Big Energy Saving Week
• Your chance to represent Bury in the International Sports Festival
• Greater Manchester Mental Health rated as 'Good'
• My tweets
• Why being on the left in Britain is now as difficult as being on the right in America
• Access to Port of Liverpool and that oddly timed judicial review
• The strange case of the unpublished report
• Getting things done - Ancrum Drive lock-ups #dundeewestend

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