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The War Down the Road From Ukraine

Combat medic and conflict studies academic Adam McQuire has been taking aid to
some of Ukraine’s most dangerous places but finds doors shut when he tries to warn
the UK government about modern warfare

1,000 Days, and the Blood Can Be Seen From Space.

Sudan is the world’s worst – and most ignored – human rights crisis and is being stoked but the Gulf states and others with the own interests says Rebecca Tinsley

Fighting Back In a Liberal City.

London ought to be a Lib Dem stronghold but the Coalition and the electoral pattern
have held the party back. Will it change in May asks Rob Blackie

Make or Break in Wales

Peter Black looks at Liberal Democrat prospects under Wales’ new PR system for
Senedd elections.

Not Back to the Future

Nigel Lindsay fears the chance has gone in May to resurrect the Labour-Lib Dem
coalition that once ruled Scotland

Beware of Greens Bearing Gifts

The Liberal Democrats are more progressive than the Greens, says Rob Heale, based
on his experience of being locally ruled by them.

Justice Denied By Budget Cuts

David Lammy’s assault on the vital constitutional safeguard of jury trials must be stopped, says Alistair Webster KC.

Stronger Than We Think

Right wing populists need not have things their way if a liberal majority can be
mobilised, says William Lane.

A Better Yesterday

The normally sensible cross-party centre left body Compass has joined with the illiberal nostalgics of Blue Labour. Jonathan Calder looks at what is happening.

Round In Circles on Race Equality

Endless reviews by the party on engaging with ethnic minorities have seen little happen. Will it ever change, wonders Rod Lynch

Strangled By Red Tape

Demands from bureaucrats and local authorities for policies and business plans are endangering the ability to function for small voluntary organisations, says Gwyneth
Deakins

Dying for King and Country

The country hasn’t fought for it syoung people, so who would fight and die for the UK, ask Wendy Kyrle-Pope and Oliver Walker

Look East for LVT

Land value taxation could replace the mansion tax, and Rosemary Runwick finds a
working example from long ago

Time to Cut the Grass

Lib Dem activists are rushed off their feet because the party fails to recruit, says John
Shreeve

Reviews

Royal Mint, National Debt, by Norman Baker (Mark Smulian)

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, by Andrew Lownie (Jonathan Calder)

Cover-Up. 2025 (documentary), by Seymour Hersh (Rebecca Tinsley)

To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause, the many lives of the Soviet
Dissident Movement, by Benjamin Nathans (Stewart Rayment)

The Quiet That Remains – Survival, silence and the story of a Ukrainian family, by Ben Skliar-Ward (Wendy Kyrle-Pope)

Sanctioned, the inside story of the sale of Chelsea FC, by Nick Purewal (Saeed Rahman)

Plus: Commentary, Radical Bulletin, Letters and Lord Bonkers’ Diary