Tag Archives: Radical

Lord William Wallace

Young Liberals, youthful radicalism: remembering Peter Hellyer

By Lord William Wallace | Sat 8th July 2023 - 1:00 pm

For most current members of the Liberal Democrats, the tensions within the Liberal Party in the late 1960s and the different ways we responded to the student revolts of 1968, the Vietnam War, the apartheid regime in South Africa and the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which ended in the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, are all ancient history.  For those of us who were Young Liberals then, however, this is a key part of what shaped our approach to politics.  A phone call last week from Hisham Hellyer to tell me that his father Peter had …

Continue reading »
Posted in Obituaries and Op-eds | Also tagged and | 13 Comments
Advert



Recent Comments

  • Chris Moore
    Currently, being to the left of Labour on spending and taxation has clearly not damaged our standing with former Tory voters in our target seats. We won in thos...
  • Chris Moore
    Graham, great to hear we are in agreement on PR! @Peter Martin: Glad to hear you wish us well. As a Corbynite, I imagine you are pretty disappointed with th...
  • Christina Nowell
    I was so glad to be there with them to stand for transgender rights! Trans rights are human rights....
  • Simon R
    HS2 doesn't really go that near Bicester. But the fact that it doesn't stop at places like that makes perfect sense when you remember that the main original pur...
  • Peter Martin
    @ Chris Moore, You might find this surprising but I'd like to see the Lib Dems do well and establish a more viable centre party. The voters should have a cle...