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What’s in this issue?

There’s Commentary, Radical Bulletin, Letters, Lord Bonkers’ Diary and:

WHY AREN’T THE LIB DEMS DOING BETTER?

Pursuing remaining Tory seats puts a ceiling on Lib Dem ambitions when greater opportunities lie among left-leaning voters, argues Paul Hindley

SPREADING POWER

Radical change is needed to defend what we value most, says Roz Savage MP

FIX THE NHS FRONT DOOR 

An over-stretched health service must be rebuilt from community level, says Helen Maguire MP

BITING BACK AGAINST THE LOAN SHARKS

Policy on student loans seriously damaged the Coalition and it’s got worse since. Paula Widdowson says it’s time to rectify the mistakes

LET’S SOLVE STUDENT DEBT

Younger Lib Dem MPs and councillors should lead efforts to recover the trust of graduates saddled with huge repayments, says Isaac Tucker

A RAINBOW TO BEAT REFORM

The Lib Dems should formally work with other parties to ward off Reform, says Sophie Layton

UKRAINE STANDS ITS GROUND

Ukrainians are longing for the end of wars as Russian attacks intensify but stay defiant. Kiron Reid reports from the front lines near Zaporizhzhia

BLOOD BROTHERS

Whatever happens in Iran, Gulf oil controlled by dictators is fuelling wider conflict across the region, says Rebecca Tinsley

IN SEARCH OF THE DEEP CENTRE

A speech from an old Sherlock Holmes film got Jon Egan thinking about why voters are deserting the traditional political parties

FREEZING OUT THE UNIONS

Liberal Democrats court the boardroom, but snub the shop floor and so cannot communicate with a large part of sect says Jack Meredith

HIGH TIME THE LORDS WENT

An unelected legislative chamber ought to be anathema to liberals, and it’s time to champion radical reform of the House of Lords, says Mathew Hulbert

HOW TO WIN THE NORTH

The Liberal Democrats are overwhelmingly a party of the south in Parliament, how can it expand into the neglected north asks Samuel James Jackson

REVIEWS

Dirty Business, Channel 4 (Gareth Epps)

The Tony Blair Story, Channel 4 (Mark Smulian)

Ungovernable: the political diaries of a Chief Whip, by Simon Hart (Rebecca Tinsley)

A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars, by Alwyn Turner (Jonathan Calder)

George Orwell: Life and Legacy, by Robert Colls (Jonathan Calder)

The Haves and Have-Yachts, by Evan Osnos (Rebecca Tinsley)

The Racket, a Rogue Reporter vs the American Empire, by Matt Kennard (Stewart Rayment)

I’m sorry, Prime Minister, by Jonathan Lyn (Nick Winch)

The Art of Delivery, by Michelle Clement (Nick Winch)

The Individualists: radicals, reactionaries, and the struggle for the soul of Libertarianism, by Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi (Stewart Rayment)