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Tag: liberalism

  • We’re justified and not ancient: introducing the SLF*

    The Social Liberal Forum has just launched. Take a peek. * If you don’t get the reference you are either too young or too old. Deal with it. But since I’m in a good mood:

  • Why I just can’t get enough of bannng lightbulbs

    I wrote my article earlier this week on the Daily Mail’s bonkers line about a sinister EU plot to ban traditional lightbulbs primarily to point out quite how many non-facts were in the story. I should have remembered the golden rule – nonsense begets nonsense. Because the next thing I knew I was getting ticked…

  • Commenting Freely on Nick Clegg

    My article on Clegg’s Demos speech is now up on Comment is Free: At a time when the Department for Work and Pensions is to be put under renewed pressure, limiting talk of social justice to tax cuts is unconvincing. What’s worse, it is clearly failing to win people over. Today’s ICM poll may show…

  • One Year On: Orange Bookers Found Wanting

    If the newspapers are anything to go by, Nick Clegg has taken the party irreversibly to the right; we are all economic liberals now. Strange then that, on the day Clegg marks his first year as leader he unveils a policy of purist Keynsianism. Still, as the old saying goes: if you have a reputation…

  • Lembit Opik: real men hate women

    I wasn’t going to blog about Lembit’s new column (fnarr! fnarr! snork!) – I figure I’ve fulfilled my quota of Lembit bashing for the year. But then he went and said something stupid: “This is part of my own stated objective to reach beyond the normal political limits to people who may not be particularly…