There are 6 principal councils by-elections this week held across England and Scotland. Labour suffered big losses vote share wise but managed to hold 3 out of 4 of their seats, losing one to the SNP.
When I first got involved in blogging, I came across the force of nature that is Mark Cole. At the time, back in 2009, he was Mayor of Cardigan at the age of just 26. He left the Council in search ...
History offers a sobering lesson. Winston Churchill warned of the perils of underinvestment in defence long before the threat of Nazi aggression materialized. His insistence on prioritising ...
The government’s White Paper on devolution within England proposes unitary local authorities with a minimum population of 500,000, as discussed in part one of this article.The other significant ...
The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian,[1] and reactionary philosophical and political movement.[2 ...
The facts around the fighting in the Donbas in 2014 are pretty well known. After the Russian Invasion of Crimea, the Ukrainian government in Kyiv was in disarray. The first forces sent to the ...
Firstly, we need to stop using the words ‘Nazi’ and ‘Fascist’. These words have no cut-through any more. I saw somebody on YouTube refer to it as a ‘Hitler Salute’ the other day. That ...
Ten years ago I wrote in Lib Dem Voice about the need for a governance review of the English Party. I urged consideration of what functions of the State party could be better delivered at a ...
There are 7 principal council by-elections held across England, Scotland, and Wales this week; with a combined of 3 Labour, 2 Lib Dem, 1 Conservative, and 1 Green Party defence. Seats changed ...
Today, Germany faces a test at its 2025 federal election. Following the atrocities of the National Socialists, will enough Germans be willing to support far-right politics to the extent that the ...
I have always favoured unitary authorities – provided they are the right unitaries, of course. It is disheartening, though unsurprising, to see Labour reforming English local government in a way ...
Slamdac and others like him have been brainwashed for years by the poison dripped into their ears by racists. When we did have an open door policy, people came to the UK when there was work and ...
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