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After the AV referendum in 2011 a consensus formed that Electoral Reform is off the political table for a generation. I completely disagr...

People often come up to me and say, "Stephen, you're a massive jerk".  (Well at least I'm a massive one).  "But you&#...

because it's staggeringly boring and irrelevant. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-jeremy-corbyn-story-that-nobody-wanted-to-...

Dear Media of Britain. Out of the goodness of my heart I have written the only article you will ever need about wearing poppies leading u...

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...