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A site for political analysis and opinion of an avowedly liberal perspective. It's all about freedom.
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Change you can believe in?
So what exactly will President Obama change?Not the face of administration, clearly!A site for political analysis and opinion of an avowedly liberal view. It's all about freedom....
European Parliamentary Party expects Lib Dem activists to listen and learn
What an organiser writes bout the event they are organising says a lot about them and how they view their audiance.Consider the break-out session at tomorrow’s One Day Policy Conference being run by the Liberal Democrat European Parliamentary Party...
Taxpayer loans to people who want new cars: Labour's latest bail-out wheeze
When I find myself in agreement with both Friends of the Earth and the Church of England I know that something truly bizarre is happening.And bizarre is the nicest word I can find for the Government’s plan to lend taxpayers money to private citizen...
Making the civil service more businesslike
This is all the more amusing for having been written in the 1930s!Officialdom classifies activity according to the capacity for undertaking it formally acquired by means of examinations and a certain period of service. 'Training' and 'length of servi...
Peter Riddell slams Labour and Tory “peripheral initiatives” on economy
Peter Riddell is the doyen of Times columnists and his insights into politics are usually pretty spot-on. It was therefore gratifying to see him arguing in yesterday’s column that the “irrelevant initiatives and hectic trips around the country”...
Haven't I already said all this?
This all sounds very familiar!In the words of Ludwig von Mises, "a government can spend or invest only what it takes away from its citizens... Its additional spending and investment curtails the citizens' spending and investment to the full extent of...
