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I have very mixed feelings about the EU and the referendum on UK membership.  I feel that we don't really want 'In' or 'Out&...

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 ...