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  • In defence of liberalism — kind of — part one

    Everyone hates liberals these days, and thinks liberalism sucks. They don’t know what they’re talking about, except they kind of have a point.

    In defence of liberalism — kind of — part one

  • Why the Lib Dems need to be saved from “true liberalism”

    I’m in the odd situation of having a vote in the Labour leadership elections via my union, but having much more interest in the Lib Dem contest (and no vote). A lot of this is because I know the players individually, but at least part of it is because the debate isn’t being framed in…

    Why the Lib Dems need to be saved from “true liberalism”

  • Why Charlotte Henry’s purity test of “real” liberalism is misguided

    Charlotte Henry has a curious article on the Total Politics blog, suggesting that Clegg’s speech on a more participatory form of industrial democracy will help us to seperate the “real liberals” from the “SDP-statist-sandal wearers”. There are several problems with this diagnosis. For one thing, the famed “sandal wearers” and the SDP members are very…

  • Social Liberal Forum: a question of definition

    Jonathan Calder demands that the Social Liberal Forum answers the following question: “What is the difference between a social liberal and a social democrat?” Personally, I don’t think we should do any such thing. It is certainly up to us to say what we mean by social liberalism, which is why we launched the SLF…

  • The dreaded spectre of the straw Fabian

    Liberator has marked the launch of the Social Liberal Forum with two articles which they have kindly allowed us to republish – one by SLF Director Matthew Sowemimo and the other by Federal Policy Committee member and writer David Boyle. David is a different kind of critic from someone like Charlotte Gore. Very much “one…