Sarah Olney: I would like to be next Lib Dem London Mayor candidateNews from the Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park since 2019 (and prior to that 2016-17): View this post on Instagram (more) |
Cole-Hamilton: Violence against women and girls demands action nowAt First Minister's Questions, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP urged the government to act with urgency to tackle violence against women and girls, as he stated that it should not take victims, including those like Vikki Solomon and Stacey Hunter, to lose their lives before proper action is taken. The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader has repeatedly pressed the government over their failure to implement important domestic abuse protections, which are still not in force despite being passed by parliament five years ago. Scottish Liberal Democrats are calling for: Homes with a history of domestic violence should be properly ... (more) |
Lisa Smart calls for police to investigate Reform's James OrrFollowing tonight's Channel 4 scoop about foreign and hidden donations to Reform, Lisa Smart has called on the police to investigate Reform's James Orr. Here's her letter in full: [IMG: Lisa Smart letter to police about Reform] Here is the Channel 4 report in full: It is also written up here. UPDATE There is also this from Ed Davey: This is serious. If Reform blatantly, intentionally and knowingly broke election law, they should be held fully accountable. Liberal Democrats have asked the Police and the Electoral Commission to investigate. — Ed Davey (@eddavey.libdems.org.uk) 2026-09-03T20:21:47.247Z (more) |
That Channel 4 News report on Reform UK and illicit funding in fullFrom this evening's Channel 4 News... (more) |
Charles Masterman and Charles Dickens on 19th-century povertyHere's a book review that features my favourite writers on Victorian poverty - the two Charlies. That's Charles Masterman and Charles Dickens. The book reviewed is Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834-1929 by Elizabeth Hurren, the reviewer is John Prebble, and it appears in the London Review of Books for 5 October 2012: Like everyone who has written about Victorian poverty, she's obstructed by the problem identified by the Liberal politician Charles Masterman in 1902. "We are very silent," the collective poor say in Masterman's From the Abyss; "so very silent that ... (more) |
The Joy of Six 1571"This is Britain at the end of the hottest summer on record. So, it beggars belief that the Conservatives have chosen this time - or would choose any - to try to scrap the world's first legally binding framework to cut carbon emissions. Legislation born in Britain and adopted by over 60 countries around the world including Germany, France, Mexico and countless others."Pippa Heylings condemns the Tories' scorched earth policy. Anna Merlan tells us what ICE's scrobbling of Milo Yiannopoulos tells us about America's far right: "But while Yiannopoulos' deportation contains an extremely rich vein of schadenfreude- he previously called ... (more) |
What can we really do to influence the situation in the West Bank?Every day we hear of more attacks by settlers on Palestinian villagers, driving them off their farms and out of their homes. We've seen in the Israeli election campaign, a continued hardening of support for annexation of all the occupied territories, with the E1 settlement policy leading to further condemnation in parliament by Callum Miller as our foreign policy lead who recognises its impact on the viability of a Palestinian State. Our parliamentary party of 72 MPs have led the way in parliament on this issue calling for equal rights, freedom and security for Palestinian people. Many of our MPs ... (more) |
Same old, same old from FarageHe's only been back in the House of Commons for a day and already Farage is playing fast and loose with the rules. The Independent reports that the Reform UK leader has broken parliamentary rules on his first day back, after he filmed a video of himself on the roof of the Houses of Parliament. The paper says that permission from parliamentary authorities must be sought before any filming takes place on the estate, while the roof is even more sensitive as a result of its implications for security and personal safety. They understand that Farage did not seek permission ... (more) |