Today is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls which kicks of the annual 16 days of activism against gender based violence which goes through until ...

The last week in November is, for me at least, packed with signifiant anniversaries and birthdays. Doctor Who and occasional Lib Dem Voice contributor Stephen Harte (come to think of it has anyone ...

On the UK Parliament e-petitions webpage, a petition has been created calling for an early general election to be called, with its creator stating that: I believe the current Labour Government have ...

Young people, so says the DWP Secretary, must ‘learn or earn’ or lose benefits. Be warned, dear reader, this is an angry post. This announcement by Liz Kendall has put three things in my mind. Firstly ...

COP 29 is in trouble. It was inevitable. This year’s climate change conference is in oil-producing Baku, Azerbaijan, and host president Ilham Aliyev is using the conference to push oil and gas as “a ...

One down. A lot more to go. The infamous and totally unsuitable Matt Gaetz on Friday withdrew his name for consideration as Donald Trump’s Attorney General. The world heaved a sigh of relief. Trump ...

This time last week we were all celebrating the news of a stonking by-election win in Colinton/Fairmilehead in Edinburgh. We jumped from fourth place to first to elect Louise Spence after an ...

These seem like very niche proposals. Nothing wrong with that per se, but they don’t seem to me like the kind of things that should be high priority in attracting the youth vote. I’d expect ...

The UK’s image of its place in the world since the Second World War has rested on the claim to act as the ‘Atlantic bridge’, as Tony Blair used to put it. We were the USA’s closest ally within Europe, ...