Liberator 432 is out.

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In this issue we have what we think is the first full account in English of how social liberal party D66 won in the Netherlands, and how Roz Savage MP’s solo ocean rowing experiences informed her views on the environment.

Also, find out in Radical Bulletin what went wrong with party elections, what’s happened to membership and about a panic over the Federal Council’s powers

MAN TROUBLE 

Young men are drifting to Reform but the Liberal Democrats could win them back if they only tried, says Isaac Tucker

YES WE CAN!

Annelou van Egmond explains how a stricter immigration policy helped the social liberal party D66 come top in the Dutch general election.

REGENERATION GAP.

Roz Savage MP argues Britain needs more than net zero targets and masterplans – it needs a great regeneration of nature, communities, economy and democracy

EATING THE BIG APPLE 

The triumph of democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani as New York’s mayoral race has not been grasped by the Democrat establishment, says Rebecca Tinsley

HAS THE FIGHTBACK AGAINST TRUMP STARTED?

Martha Elliott looks at signals that the American public has had enough of its president

GIVE THE HIGH STREETS A HEART 

The Liberal Democrat policy paper on high streets and town centres lacks ideas on how to rescue them from decline, says Roger Hayes

MISSING MEMBERS 

Why do the Liberal Democrats pay so little attention to membership? wonders Tad Jones

WHEN TO FLY A  FLAG

Labour imitates those spreading hate about asylum seekers instead of standing up

to them, finds Gary Malcolm

SEND FOR A TASK FORCE 

The Liberal Democrats should move into areas where they are unrepresented,

says Sophie Layton

TWO WHEELS BAD .

Power-assisted bikes are out of control and a danger to pedestrians, says Ken Gabbott‑Rolph

HARD ROAD TO KINDNESS

Compassion is not weakness but rather the foundation of liberal politics, argues Mathew Hulbert

EMBEDDING DEMOCRACY.

The UK is vulnerable to extremists without the constitutional democratic safeguards common in Europe, argues Jack Meredith

OBITUARY: MENZIES (MING) CAMPBELL

Michael Meadowcroft pays tribute to a former Liberal Democrat leader

WHERE WE CAME FROM 

David Grace looks at the Liberal Democrat History Group’s new booklet on the history of liberal ideas

REVIEWS

Downing Street Downfalls: The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Minister Since Thatcher. By Mark Garnett (Jonathan Calder)

The New Total War. By Bob Seely (Rebecca Tinsley)

Kingmaker, secrets, lies and the truth about five prime ministers. By Sir Graham Brady. (Larry Ngan)

The West, the history of an idea. By Georgios Varouxakis. (Stewart Rayment)

A Very Private School: A Memoir. By Charles Spencer. (Jonathan Calder)

Get Carman, in court with George Carman QC, Britain’s most feared lawyer. By

Karen Phillips (Stewart Rayment)

Trailblazer, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, The first feminist to change our world.

By Jane Robinson and Bodichon.By Mary Upton (Stewart Rayment)

Round the Horne (play), by Barry Took and Marty Feldman (Mark Smulian)

Lord Bonkers’ Diary