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• Why Britain should be wary of Andy Burnham’s Devolution Revolution (Iain Donaldson)
• “Build, baby, build” but don’t lower our ambitions on affordability (Victor Chamberlain)
• Twenty-six years of evidence on drugs. Twenty-six years of cowardice. (Tanya Park)
• Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
• Observations of an Expat: Gaza (Tom Arms)

• The Joy of Six 1540
• Are we doing enough to insure against climate change?
• Don't mention the Isle of Wight Separatists' 1950s terror campaign
• Fergus McClelland was the last illegal major British child actor
• Labour and the Liberals in 1924 and today
• Family: Scene Through the Eye of a Lens
• Brexit: The Uncivil War - the TV drama with Benedict Cumberbatch
• A power vacuum?

Recent Comments

• Iain Donaldson
  Several commenters have highlighted different aspects of the same underlying issue: not whether power should leave Westminster, but how that power is exercised ...
• David S
  For devolution to have a long-term, the devolved regions have to have an *independent basis of authority*. Independent, that is, of a grant from the government....
• David Evans
  Indeed Iain, Burnham's proposal of money to elected mayors will be the final nail in the coffin Labour have built to totally undermine the Lib Dems from any cha...
• Tristan Ward
  What are the Liberal Democrats for? I can't see why this is such a difficult question. "The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and ...
• Peter Martin
  "That is why I believe the long-term answer is not merely devolution but federalism" The USA is has a Federal System of government. We've all hear...