To say that Birmingham City Council is facing a number of challenges at the moment would be an understatement. A combination of savage cuts to their central funding, a failed IT system, and the equal ...

For East Europeans the overriding emotional issue is fear. Through the centuries Russia has proven itself to be a bad neighbour. The Baltic States alone had more than 130,000 people arrested and sent ...

Parliamentarians, including 19 Lib Dem MPs and Peers, have this week sent a letter to the Prime Minister, the Foreign ...

In Market Harborough, the Conservatives secured a close-fought victory against us. Commiserations to Roger Dunton and the ...

Wow! The Mayor of Welwyn Hatfield and I, only a week or so ago, spoke with students from Stanborough School about whether the voting age should be lowered to 16. We divided the Council Chamber into ...

Workforce figures: public “desperately” needs a govt focused on getting growth back on track Voting reforms: Elon Musk-shaped hole in Government’s announcement Afghanistan data leak ...

We were then welcomed to Helsinki by ALDE Party President Svenja Hahn – a friend of mine from LYMEC back in the day – and the dry Finnish wit of Anders Adlercreutz, SFP party leader, and Antti ...

Budge up! We need to make room at the British political table for a new guest. Or, an old guest wearing a different hat which, in these days of UKIPs, Brexit parties, and Reform Uks (Reforms UK?), ...

A few “political open goals” have been facing the Lib Dems recently, from the firing of Christine Jardine from the front bench (covered wonderfully by Lib Dem Voice’s own Mathew Hulbert) to Unite the ...

There are some things that you just can’t polish.” So I said when i spoke against the Government’s plans to bring secret courts into the area of civil law back in 2013. For some inexplicable reason, ...

The Conservatives’ mismanagement of the economy led us here and now Donald Trump’s senseless trade war and the Government’s wage suppressing jobs tax are only adding to people’s pain.