James Graham is a semi-retired Lib Dem activist. Since joining the party in 1995, he has been Chair and Secretary of the Manchester University Liberal Democrats, twice-elected Communications Officer of the Liberal Democrat Youth and Students (a sabbatical post), Campaigns Officer of the Leeds Liberal Democrats, Press Officer for Liz Lynne MEP, a member of the Party’s Federal Executive and Vice Chair of the Green Liberal Democrats. He currently holds no office in the party or any of its associated organisations.
James has a special interest in democracy and civil liberties, secularism, the environment and economics. A committed Georgist, he is a member of ALTER, the Lib Dem affiliated association for Land Tax and Economic Reform.
Outside politics, James has a keen interest in film, comics and popular science. He veers between secularism and humanism, but is an affirmed baby-eating atheist.
For his day job, James is the Campaigns and Communications Manager for Unlock Democracy, the UK’s leading campaign for democracy, rights and freedoms. James is also a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Comment is Free and OpenDemocracy’s OurKingdom.
To contact James, please email semajmaharg&at&gmail&dot&com (if you can’t work out which bits there to replace with appropriate characters, there is no hope for you).
