Ed Davey has described Rachel Reeves' budget as a failure. He said: This was a botched Budget delivered by a Chancellor who has diagnosed the disease, but refuses to administer the cure. This Governme ...

On Sunday a friend and former colleague in Gaza called Mamdouh wrote to me, “By the grace of God, we’ve just prepared a delicious meal of falafel using all the traditional fresh ingredients - ...

Liberator 432 is out. You can download Liberator 432 for free here. and remember you can sign up here to be emailed when each ...

I don’t know if you feel the same, but it seems to me that this is the longest run-up to a Budget that I can remember.  We’ve ...

Since the founding of the Liberal Party, we have held that taxation must do more than fund the state: it must correct the injustice of extreme wealth. As John Stuart Mill wrote in his Principles of ...

You know, the Dutch, they are so liberal, they’ve got two liberal parties… And one of them, the one that’s most like us, D66, were the smaller party in a coalition, and then in 2006 they got stuffed.

As the Chancellor prepares to deliver the Budget tomorrow, those with the most to lose are the poorest in our society. Many of you reading this can hardly imagine living on £20,000 a year before ...

On Wednesday the Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver her long awaited (long feared?) Budget at a critical time for ...

There are few issues which animate both the super-rich and the political Left more than the notion of a wealth tax. The idea has been championed by the French Left: a 2% levy would be levied on the ...

Our local news media is at the heart of community and the first line of defence against corruption in public life. Across the country, thousands of local journalists work tirelessly to hold power to ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has re-ignited the tense Sino-Japanese relations that underscore the region’s volatile politics. The roots of these tensions go back centuries and will doubtless ...

This week, there were seven local by-elections, of which there was a Liberal Democrat candidate in all but one contest. The six-month rule has now come into effect for seats that are up in 2026, so no ...