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The 2016 elections are particularly important as first major post-Coalition test for the Lib Dems. Many Lib Dems will hope that leaving ...

I am a big fan of learning the lessons of History. Without understanding the past our understanding of the present will always risk being...

The lovely folks at ' Labour Hame ', a Scottish Labour website, have published my article on whether Jeremy Corbyn could repeat the ...

This morning I finally got round to doing something I had meant to do for a while: I wrote to my MP to encourage him to lobby the government...

A kind correspondent (Glen Klugkist of South Africa) pointed out that in my articles on the populations of Middle Earth at the time of Lord ...

The incompetence of the EU's approach to the Greek debt crisis has been staggering. 5 years of failure have gone by and we are closer to...

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, H...

'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sh...

A very talented family (under the name Calamvi de Profundis) have produced a long version of  'The Misty Mountains Cold', the Dw...

A Poem. To be read fast.  (to the tune of Modern Major-General if you prefer) There was a merry passenger a messenger, an errander; ...