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CULA Christmas: Santa’s Resignation

Dear Santa,  Please stop eating so much cheese and drinking so much mulled wine. It’s making you fat and there’s already an obesity crisis; quite frankly, it’s food that could’ve gone to those living below the poverty line in this country. You know – the ones to whom you cut Read more…

By Editor, 5 months5 months ago
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CULA Christmas: All I want for Christmas is Universal Suffrage

It always amazes me how few people really believe in universal suffrage. How many people are willing to defend arbitrary restrictions on who can exercise their fundamental right to vote. How many don’t even question the incredible inequality that over 20% of our country face every single election. How many of the Read more…

By Freddie Poser, 5 months5 months ago
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CULA Christmas: All I Want for Christmas is a Labour Government and a Pint-Sized Bottle of Champagne

I fear my choice of title has likely already disqualified my piece from winning the competition. Alas, it was never about winning, it was about owning the Cons and if I annoy some Orange Book reading group in the process, that would simply be the cherry on top. Besides Christmas Read more…

By Sam Hudson, 5 months5 months ago
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CULA Christmas: Truss at No. 10 – The liberal pragmatist’s case for Liz Truss

From the outset, I’d like to clarify this is in no way an endorsement of Liz Truss nor the Conservative party at the next general election. However given the recent Tory slump in the polls, the likelihood of an early general election seems diminished. Thus it is an inescapable truth Read more…

By Editor, 5 months5 months ago
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CULA Christmas: Money for People

What I want for Christmas: money for people There’s a great episode of Seinfeld where George, in a desperate attempt to get out of buying Christmas gifts, tells his coworkers he’s made a donation in their name to The Human Fund, a charity with the slogan ‘money for people’. The gag, of Read more…

By Peter McLaughlin, 5 months4 months ago
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The socialist distraction from our dying world

I’d like to clear up a couple of things from the beginning of this article. Firstly, I’m aware that the title reads like a piece of McCarthyist propaganda, but I promise that it’s not.

By Archie McCann, 10 months9 months ago
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Why I am going to Chesham and Amersham

I fucking hate losing. 2016 obviously; the collapse of our party a year before. Few, though, have stung as much as 2019. Not just a Liberal Democrat disappointment, but a huge majority for a party of sleazeballs, crackpots, and authoritarians, strung…

By Cosmo Lupton, 12 months9 months ago
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Why I’m not going to Chesham and Amersham

I cannot bring myself to campaign for Sarah Green and the Liberal Democrats this by-election. This isn’t because I don’t think she’ll be a better MP than another Boris stooge—of course she will. The reason is one, simple, policy issue: housebuilding.

By Freddie Poser, 12 months9 months ago
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My liberal icon: Benjamin Constant

Most theories of politics, in my view, are theories of content rather than of structure. Political philosophers are too keen to tell us what we should be discussing, rather than how we should be discussing it.

By Stella Mendes, 1 year9 months ago
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My liberal icon: Voltaire

Voltaire is my liberal icon because he was a man of many talents and imparted his views on the world through almost every channel possible: he was a philosopher, author, historian, economist, human rights activist, and scientist.

By Matilda Watts, 1 year9 months ago

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