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Nick Clegg attacks Policy Exchange for “offensive” and “underhand” briefing –...

LDV readers may recall that last October, we ran a piece highlighting Nick Clegg’s attack on think-tank Policy exchange for circulating a a dossier questioning apparent extremist background of several...

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Sticking up for David Gauke and his tax-avoidance comments

David Gauke, the exchequer secretary to the treasury, is a Conservative minister I’m quite happy to stick up for. He’s in the headlines this morning for an interview he gave to the Telegraph in which...

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Can I out-Orange Book Jeremy Browne? Find out on 22nd September…

So this is how my visit to Lib Dem conference this year will begin… by appearing on the panel for one of CentreForum’s 27 (count ‘em) fringe events, catchily titled Half-Time Oranges (and Blues): How...

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John Prescott should ignore this post. It asks you to think.

I had a leeetle bit of a moan about Twitter at the weekend — in particular its tendency to turn even normally quite intelligent and courteous people into the worst kind of insult-spewing trolls — and...

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Why the Lib Dems are standing for barely half the elected police commissioner...

With nominations closed and the elections less than a month away, time for a quick recap on where the Lib Dems are at in the forthcoming police commissioner elections. As ConHome has taken some...

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Liberal Hero of the Week #20: David Gauke

Welcome to the 20th in our series, Liberal Hero of the Week, chosen by Stephen Tall, Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and Research Associate at CentreForum. ’Liberal Heroes’ showcases those who...

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A longer read for the weekend: Tim Leunig on how to increase airport capacity...

Congratulations to Tim Leunig — these days a senior adviser in the Department for Education, but until recently chief economist at the CentreForum think-tank — whose report Bigger and quieter: the...

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Nick (finally) makes his education speech and launches the Coalition’s own...

Five days after it was pre-briefed, Nick Clegg finally made his speech on A Liberal Vision for Education at Morpeth School in Tower Hamlets. (Morpeth is, by the way, a fantastic school. I visited it...

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“What should the political parties promise on education in 2015?” – What I...

I was one of the speakers at this weekend’s Policy Exchange conference which posed the question, ‘What should the political parties promise on education in 2015?’ Though I work in the education...

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