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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
In the 21st century it is difficult to have icons. Finding historical figures who didn’t engage in problematic behaviour when viewed in the light of today is a challenge in and of itself. Even figures such as…
The liberal icon I’ve chosen is George Eliot, although I haven’t yet read most of what she wrote. She has been described as both a romantic conservative and a radical Millian liberal, and no doubt was both at different points in her life. But whatever…