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• One year on, and I’m still finding it hard to feel pride (Rebecca Jones)
• Andy Burnham’s housing challenge: Why his own arguments demand more than Labour’s current plans (Iain Donaldson)
• ALDC’s by-election report – 18th June (Joe Nutt)
• Mathew on Monday: Starmer’s resignation and an increasingly ungovernable country (Mathew Hulbert)
• Fairness First: Why Wealth Taxes Are a Natural Fit for the Liberal Democrats (Tom Walker)

• The Joy of Six 1537
• Lessons from 1936 and 2026 for the Liberal Democrats (LDN#211)
• Leadership plotting, in real life and in fiction
• A journey along the Welsh Border in 1963
• Recipe for a real change of direction
• Day 9304: So Farewell Then, Kier Starmer
• Personality matters in politics: Starmer's lack of one did for him
• Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK's largest children's prison

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