Keynesian Liberal

If David Cameron continues in the same vein as this week he will become the Liberal Democrat's greatest asset. His 17 point plan to curt...

1.  Nick Clegg writes to me ("Dear Peter," although we've never actually met): " As Liberal Democrat Leader I was prou...

Tufton Bufton Tories are threatening to break the coalition agreement and vote against the House of Lords reform bill.  Their feeble excuse ...

I had thought it was R A Butler, among other things one of our greatest ministers of education, who coined the phrase "democracy is gov...

Outside my work as a teacher, mainly of economics, I've devoted most of my time, energy and enthusiasm to the Liberal/Liberal Democrat P...

Keynes famously said that when the facts changed he changed his views.  Not so Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.  W...

The government which promised less top-down micro-management from the centre has, only some two months after dictating how primary school te...