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AI and Liberal Democracy (Robin Ashby)
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The chaos dividend: Why the ultra-rich thrive on an unstable world, and why that’s rational in the short term and suicidal in the long term (Tanya Park)
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Vince Cable writes…Labour and Fiscal Rules (Vince Cable)
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Josh Babarinde writes…The Lib Dem Summer of Strategy (Josh Babarinde)
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Mathew on Monday: “We need to be bold” (Mathew Hulbert)
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Good news on political donations?
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Conference booked
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New chair of North Northamptonshire Council stands down over social media posts
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Moving on from Whickham South and Sunniside
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The Joy of Six 1531
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Give us a sign!
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Child mannequin found on train with can of cider
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Are Labour going to cross another red line?
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Martin Wainwright's Guardian obituary of Michael Meadowcroft
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Evaluating different electoral systems for the House of Commons
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Neil Sandison
Perhaps in this increasingly busy political market . The bird of liberty needs sharpen its beak and talons and regain some street credibility on the core issues...
David Allen
Tristan, Thanks for the link, which is interesting. Neidle's "taxes people want to raise" are ideas like wealth tax, which Neidle thinks wouldn't work well....- David Allen
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Peter Martin
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@ David Allen "getting taxes out of our wealthy oppressors is just too hard". More importantly (possibly) is that it simply would not raise enough money t...
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I’ve never forgotten the juxtaposition of signs which appeared on a farm gate in Worplesdon, Woking during the 1964 General Election.
Reading from the top, they declared;
“Manure One Shilling a Bag.
Vote Cranley Onslow
Conservative”
I forget the context, but he was once famously referred to as Sir Crapley Onslow.
This is worth a real cheer.
Anyone remember the Tory posters in the Winchester by election where the losing tory Gerry Malone won High Court battle to rerun the electionary without the support of the local tory association? His posters were amended to read Gerry Alone.
@ Kay Kirkham. I don’t recall seeing one of those. However, I did see one on which the photo of Gerry Malone had been embellished with a pair of horns and the words “is evil” had been added beneath his name.
During the 1997 General Election the Tories in South West Surrey opted for large diamond shaped stake boards in support of:
Virginia
Bottomley
Some of them succumbed to the surgical removal of the right-hand corner. As Chair of the local LibDems at that time, I never did discover the culprit(s), although I did have my suspicions.