It’s a pity Nick Clegg is ditching his principled approach to immigration
Nick Clegg appears finally to be dropping his principled stance on immigration in favour of ill-considered rhetoric.
Liberal Democrats
7 ways the Lib Dems have failed the environment
With a track record like this, how do the Lib Dems expect us to take seriously their claim to protect the environment and halt climate change?
Politicians must live up to their devolution promises
Bold proposals devolution proposals have a habit of not living up to the full height of their promises.
The real reason the Lib Dems U-turned on the Bedroom Tax
The Bedroom Tax U-turn is about dire Lib Dem poll ratings, not principles.
Blair is not the only one with Iraq amnesia – the Lib Dems were NOT anti-invasion, just anti-that-kind-of-invasion
It is one of the great myths of recent political history – that the Liberal Democrats were opposed to Britain joining with US forces to invade Iraq in 2003.
How Labour drove the Lib Dems out of Brent
There are powerful lessons in the Lib Dems’ decimation in London which the Labour Party would do well to remember.
To be meaningful again, liberalism must actually seek to liberalise
The challenge facing contemporary liberalism runs far deeper than the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Europe votes: reform moves up the agenda but withdrawal remains an isolationist dream
All parties are failing to articulate a clear vision for Britain’s relationship with the EU.
The not so strange death of liberal England
For liberalism to survive, its thinkers and activists will need to wrest control from those so mired in the Westminster bubble.
Ugly truths and Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine
The Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine group was rife with antisemitism, writes Mark Gardner.