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Jo Swinson during a visit to WeWork in Marylebone, London, where she launched her campaign to succeed Sir Vince Cable as leader of the Liberal Democrats. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday May 31, 2019. See PA story POLITICS LibDems. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Content warning: contains discussion around mental health, depression and anxiety Hi there, dear reader. You may notice that I haven’t been blogging much recently. Um, at all, to be precise. Indeed, aside from the occasional spurt of enthusiasm, I haven’t really been blogging with any degree of regularity since 2010. Why is that? Well, lots… Continue reading Hello world

Brexit: if you think Corbyn is the problem, you haven’t been paying attention

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 12: Jeremy Corbyn is announced as the new leader of the Labour Party at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre on September 12, 2015 in London, England. Mr Corbyn was announced as the new Labour leader today following three months of campaigning against fellow candidates ministers Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham and shadow minister Liz Kendall. The leadership contest comes after Ed Miliband's resignation following the general election defeat in May. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

I don’t think I’ve ever been as appalled by UK politics as I am at this point. That the Leave campaign won the referendum on a pack of lies is a fact in this post-fact world that even its own leaders have implicitly acknowledged by their equivocations, downcast faces and vanishing acts. We are in… Continue reading Brexit: if you think Corbyn is the problem, you haven’t been paying attention

The anti-people’s budget and the constitutional crisis that isn’t

Labour Clears The Way poster from 1911 general election

The government rhetoric about the House of Lords’ threat to derail their cherished plan to cut tax credits has been extraordinary over the last few days. To believe it, you would have to think that we are in the deadlocked position Parliament found itself between 1909 and 1911, when the then Liberal government attempted to… Continue reading The anti-people’s budget and the constitutional crisis that isn’t