In 2003, the Labour government introduced the Sexual Offences Bill. It was ambitious in scope, seeking to overhaul completely a hundred years or more of legislation and align the law with the social m...
The late 1970's saw Liberal politics dominated by The Pact between Steel and Callaghan. Many Liberals were far from happy, feeling they had been sold out
Refers to the National Liberal Club which was, for a time, a sort of drop-in, day centre for Liberals. The Party organisation was based there - for a time in the basement Gents loos - and the building...
Despite being seen as the Liberal Anthem, this actually comes from
the Georgists, followers of Henry George, an American political
thinker who expounded the theory of land value taxation. Th...
In the age of the 'soundbite' and
sophisticated electoral techniques, it is easy to forget that in times
not so long ago, the mass media of the day was the popular song. The
trick was to t...