What’s the big idea?

The first Social Liberal Forum project (technically the second one, as I will explain later) has now wheeled into view: The Ideas Factory. We want your ideas for what should be in the Lib Dem manifesto. Your idea will be critiqued by our dragons advisory board and opened to further debate. Visitors to the SLF… Continue reading What’s the big idea?

Nine wishes for 2009 #6: the EU to get real

You never know, it’s just possible this might happen. 2008 presented a real quandary for me: on the one hand, I was (not uncritically) supportive of the European Constitutional Treaty. Its mutation into the Lisbon Treaty made it weaker still, removing one of the main advantages of the Constitutional Treaty in the first place (specifically,… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #6: the EU to get real