Author Archives: Rupert Read

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1. This isn't the future Beveridge fought for
2. Observations of an Expat: Scary Thoughts
3. Liberal Democrats should oppose the proscription of Palestine Action
4. Beyond Neoliberalism: Rethinking freedom to create a post-growth liberalism fit for the 21st Century
5. ALDC by-election report, 3rd July

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• What’s on at Bournemouth? FCC’s agenda selection report (Nick Da Costa)
• This week is SEND week: we have an opportunity to get reform right (Callum Robertson)
• Mathew on Monday – Social Insecurity: A right, not a handout! (Mathew Hulbert)
• Game, Set, Match: Why Liberal Democrats Must Prepare for Labour’s Autumn Tax Squeeze (Jamie Dalzell)
• Beyond Neoliberalism: Rethinking freedom to create a post-growth liberalism fit for the 21st Century (Rodrigo Palmer)

• Electrification of the Midland Mainline is paused yet again
• The Peatling Parva by-election sounds like an episode of a sitcom
• Manfred Mann: Semi-detached, Suburban Mr James
• Ninewells Community Garden Big Biodiversity Bash #dundeewestend
• UN panel raises concerns about impact of Labour's welfare bill
• Return to Walnut Tree Viaduct in South Wales
• "And Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks"
• The crisis of hardship calls for action beyond the welfare system
• Reform turn up in time for the end of the meeting
• The Joy of Six 1382

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• John Waller
  In 2014, our guide from Haifa to Galilee and back claimed, for over 8 hours, there was no such thing as Palestine. Macron suggests Starmer should support the c...
• Peter Martin
  "Inequality in the UK is not increasing". ??? It depends on how it's measured. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/182967/economics/inequality-i...
• Andy Daer
  There are many domestic matters which need Liberal Democrat attention, because of a number of failures by the new Labour Administration to live up to expectatio...
• David McDowall
  Understood there is intense competition for space on the Conference agenda, but I was taken aback that the LDFP-proposed motion on the future of Palestine and I...
• Mohammed Amin
  I disagree with the author's starting point. Inequality in the UK is not increasing. There was a significant increase in inequality from about 1980-1994 but ...