This article first appeared in I News The Lib Dems can’t credibly claim to be the alternative government-in-waiting, so they need to work with Labour…
This article first appeared in I News The Lib Dems can’t credibly claim to be the alternative government-in-waiting, so they need to work with Labour…
Here’s a conundrum. How do you make something interesting when even its name might be a turn-off? OK, let’s try it: liberalism. Does that word…
The great sage of the US House of Representatives, Tip O’Neill, gave us the admonition that ‘All politics is local.’. Recent by-election wins by the…
This post first appeared as a blog on The I Paper website… The North Shropshire by-election result is undoubtedly remarkable, with the Lib Dems coming back…
Radix is featured prominently in the October 2021 issue of InterLib: Journal of the Liberal International British Group with reviews of both our recent online…
In 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Paddy Ashdown published a short and visionary book called Citizens’ Britain: A Radical Agenda for…
The Chesham and Amersham by-election has caused a bit of an earthquake in a political landscape that many thought was frozen with no credible opposition…
My brother-in-law appears to be becoming some kind of bellwether of British electoral politics – he has voted at least four ways to my certain…
Dear Ed I very much enjoyed your first speech to the virtual Lib Dem conference this week. The party has survived so far, but rather…
Last week was a fascinating glimpse into the limited imagination of our political duopoly. I use the term ‘duopoly’ but, it’s more like an ersatz…
For tribal politicians the primacy of one’s party is an article of faith. For thinking Liberal Democrats, however, the three general elections of the second…
After the East Berlin uprising of 1953, Bertolt Brecht, wrote a satirical poem titled ‘The Solution’: “After the uprising of June 17thThe Secretary of the…