New issue of Liberator is out

Liberator 426 is out and you can download it for free here: https://liberatormagazine.org.uk/recent-issues/

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In addition to Commentary, Radical Bulletin and Lord Bonkers’ Diary, we have in this issue:

ERMINE CONTROL

Ed Davey should look for new peers who can scrutinise bills and help

update the party, not policy experts, says Liz Barker

DIARY OF A BLACK MAN AT PARTY CONFERENCE..

Six years on the Lib Dems have still ignored proposals to improve their standing among ethnic minorities. That will soon cost them dearly at the polls, says Rod Lynch

BLUE STATE POST ELECTION BLUES

How did American come to elect a felon and how authoritarian will Trump be able to get? Martha Elliott considers what went wrong

NEW TO ALL THIS.

York Membery questions six new Liberal Democrat MPs who were prepared to tell him what makes them tick politically

THE GOVERNMENT NOBODY REALLY WANTED

And it’s one that very few voted for, lacks political courage and is ripe for being taken on, says Roger Hayes

THE SILENCE OF THE ARABS

Arab rulers may criticise Israel but their real concerns are doing business and staying in power, says Rebecca Tinsley

LEFT BEHIND BY THE GREENS

The Green party made deeper inroads than the Lib Dems in most inner city areas at the general election. Urban activists Dave Raval, Charlie Clinton and Scott Emery look at what should be done

BADENOCH OPPORTUNITY IF LIB DEMS CAN GRASP IT

Disarray in Conservative ranks will only take the Lib Dems so far, the party leadership must articulate a grown-up alternative to Labour, says J Frasier Hewitt

ANSWERING BACK TO THE ‘POST-LIBERALS’

Benjamin Wood explains how a forthcoming book on radical liberalism seeks to help liberals recover some forgotten politics that could help them today

GEORGIAN DREAM TURNS SOUR ON EUROPE

Does a disputed election with a surprising loss for pro-EU forces spell the end for democracy in Georgia, asks Alex Scrivener?

NOW OR NEVER

The combination of factors that drove Lib Dem success in July won’t come again and must be exploited quickly for the next election, says Sophie Layton

SPACE TO GROW.

If the Liberal Democrats don’t campaign for the UK’s neglected regions Reform will, warns Louis Kent

REVIEWS

Truss at 10, by Anthony Seldon and Jonathan Meakin (reviewed by Nick Winch)

Precipice, by Robert Harris (Wendy Kyrle-Pope)

Bloody Panico (Or, Whatever Happened To The Tory Party?), by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Gareth Epps)

Strike: An Uncivil War. Netflix (Rebecca Tinsley)

Undercover: Exposing the Far Right. Channel 4 (Rebecca Tinsley)

Final Approach, my father and other turbulence, by Mark Blackburn (Stewart Rayment)

Mission Zero, the Independent Net Zero Review, by Chris Skidmore (Stewart Rayment)