Keynesian Liberal

When a barber asked a curmudgeonly customer how he would like his hair cutting the response is said to have been, "In silence."  ...

On the theory that "no publicity is bad publicity" I'd have been delighted in most of my years as a Liberal/ Liberal Democrat...

In my adult lifetime the first significant politic reverse occurred on 3rd May 1979 with the election of Margaret Thatcher.  Until then we ...

I've spent the past week on a walking holiday in Anglesey: hence no posts.  (I leave my computer behind. Surely one point of a holiday ...

In his splendid biography of Roy Jenkins, John Campbell quotes in some detail a speech made by Jenkins in 1967: [To] cling on to our prec...

The previous post deals with the folly of the Tory policy of mandatory prison sentences for  the second offence of carnying a knife.  On ...

Shortly after the stabbing of teacher Ann Maguire in her classroom in Leeds Nick Clegg was asked on his London Radio phone-in programme if ...